Hi there, does anyone have any tried and tested or ideas welcome on suitable yoga restorative asanas for nerve damage to a shoulder??
The client cannot move his arm as the nerves have been torn out of the spinal cord but he experiences severe pain.
Namaste
Stretching is usually good. Maybe your client should try basic stretching, before moving on to more complicated, more demanding asanas.
Many asanas could help… Be creative. It should not be difficult for you to choose asanas if you have done yoga.
Seems your client needs some kind of reabilitation thru physiotherapy. Sometimes you need to softly move your afflicted limb back to life, working in full or medium range of an articulation. Stretching is not always the answer.
If stretching or yoga doesnt help. I recomend he tries accupuncture. It can do wonders for that type of pain. Its effective because it goes deeper than massage, the needles being in direct contact with the affliction, in this case the nerves and cartilage. It worked for me, but you need many treatments.
My goodness, what a traumatic injury, the poor thing 
Is the pain in the arm or at the area of the spinal cord where the damage took place? If it’s in the arm, you may want to read up on phantom limbs as it MAY be of some benefit.
Thanks for the link…the pain he experiences is in the hand of the ‘limp’ arm. He has pulled the nerves from C3-6 and T1 from the spinal cord and the nerves that branch from here to the shoulder have been cut too.
I have been told to do pawanmuktasana series 1 on his arm for him. Lets see how it goes 
Sarah,
this is a very tricky situation. Students that do not have innervation to the upper extremities need a very mindful therapeutic program crafted for them. It is not a simple matter of this asana or that asana, though of course poses to do and poses to avoid would be part of that conversation.
Such a condition should be worked on by a senior teacher. Perhaps you can contact that person who trained you in therapeutic yoga and get some direction there?
I agree with InnerAthlete.
I do have one suggestion that I find works for me. You could bring constant awareness to those areas where you don’t have as much sensation. Awareness through meditation or relaxation naturally brings energy and blood flow to wherever you are focused. Get to know where the numbness originates, whether the numbness itself is different in different areas… as questions like this, exploring your body in and around those areas.
I hope this helps.
David
I completly agree with the two posts before.
I would sugest Yoga nidra in a modified version that gives two or three times more awareness to this area.
All the best
Lars