Prayers sent for Larry. Have you thought about useing a cross-bow. I think cross-bows have a trad personality about them. After all, they used them way back when. You deserve to still enjoy the out-doors. Just a thought. Please, no hate mail.

Prayers from California Larry. See a real sports doctor or a hand surgeon would be good too. And consider the alternatives with an open mind: Compound bow, thumb ring, release,whatever it takes to stay in the woods and kill Elk.
There are supplements that work too......check it out.

Larry,

Check out Physical Therapy.

I thought it was a bunch of hog wash.

Apparently, I have had too many blows to the head (Married too long).

I have 2 fused vertebrae and a good sized bit of disc pushing on my spinal column. I can't feel my left hand very well and I have a fair amount of pain in my neck, left shoulder and left arm. For a while, I was living on pain killers.

However, the symptoms and pain are much, MUCH, better now that I have gotten therapy. They have a head - neck stretcher that pulls my vertebrae apart and reduces the pain, significantly!

Every day the pain gets less and I have more feeling in my hand.

Who knows, maybe therapy can help you too!