DD is 15, in Y11 (has GCSEs coming up).
A couple of years ago she broke her scaphoid and had physio after that to help strengthen her wrist. Fast forward a year and she injures the same wrist, this time a bad sprain. MRI suggested no lasting nerve damage but since then, she's been unable to feel extremes of temperature in that hand and her grip has been poor. More physio and daily exercises have helped but in the past few weeks her wrist has become painful and her middle three fingers often tingle or lose sensation. The pain moves around and is sometimes dull but sometimes shooting.
DD already uses a laptop at school because of pain caused by writing by hand, especially at speed (she is hypermobile so this may be related to that rather than the wrist injuries). The loss of grip in her dominant hand and ongoing pain is a more recent development - DD has a very high pain threshold ordinarily so it's a worry she's in pain so much of the time at the moment.
In September she was referred for nerve conduction tests but that referral has been passed around a number of London hospitals and she's now got an appointment with orthopaedics at the end of January. Whilst we're waiting for the appointment, the painkillers she has been taking are no longer effective. She wears wrist warmers at school to try and stop her wrist getting cold as it then goes numb and has a variety of wrist supports and splints she uses as needed.
Private neurologists and orthopaedic specialists won't see her because she's under 18. Does anyone have any bright ideas of who I can go to or what I should be asking for to try and manage the pain?