[MoJo]

I would suspect some local nerve injury. Wounds like that can easily be associated with nerve damage. There is also the possibility that he had muscular damage and the way it is healing and scarring is causing the abnormal movements. Both could potentially resolve. Of course it is possible the carpet was hard to crawl on!

I do not believe that snakes express or show pain in a way we humans can see or appreciate. We had a lovely checkered boy that had a hide fall on him accidentally. Unfortunately it was a heavy hide and it was clear that he had his spine severely injured and was paralyzed below where the injury was. You would never have known he was in pain or that something catastrophic had happened to him! He even did well for a short time eating and defectaing. He had trouble shedding only. We finally put him down when it became clear by the smell from his enclosure that he had developed an infection that worked it's way out from the inside of his body. When my husband brought him to the vet to put him down he was still flicking his tongue. There was no way he could have survived this and yet you could not tell that he was sick.

Good luck to our guy. You have done a wonderful thing trying to help him heal and recover.