Brachial plexus injury
Occasionally during the birth of a baby the shoulders will be caught behind the pelvis of the mother as the baby moves down the birth canal. This is creates a medical emergency called dystocia.
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The brachial plexus is a network of nerves that starts in your spinal cord and controls muscle movements in your shoulder, arm and hand.
Brachial plexus dysfunction (brachial plexopathy) is a form of peripheral neuropathy. It occurs when there is damage to the brachial plexus, an area where a nerve bundle from the spinal cord splits into the individual arm nerves.
Brachial plexus stretch injuries in newborns usually occur during a difficult delivery, such as with a large baby, a breech presentation, or a prolonged labor.
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The Brachial Plexus is the network of nerves which supply the arm.
Brachial plexus: A network of spinal nerves that originates in the back of the neck, extends through the axilla (armpit), and gives rise to nerves to the upper limb.
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Brachial plexus injuries follow stretching caused by shoulder dystocia, breech extraction, or hyperabduction of the neck in cephalic presentations.
brachial plexus (BRAY-kee-ul PLEKS-us)
A network of nerves that sends signals from the spine to the arm and hand.
If different brachial plexus nerves are compressed, you may have neck, ear, upper back, upper chest and outer arm pain on the affected side. Some people also have headaches.
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These sensations usually occur after partial injury to the brachial plexus (a major nerve in the spine that goes to the arms) or a peripheral sensory nerve (a nerve in the body outside of the brain or spinal cord that provides sensation).
The brachial plexus is a network of nerves that join together to form the nerves of the arm, hand, and fingers. If the brachial plexus is stretched during delivery, the newborn may have weakness or paralysis involving all or part of an arm.
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This is caused when damage occurs to the brachial plexus, or the nerves located around the shoulder.
The lower branch of the brachial plexus of nerves exits from the lower cervical vertebrae, then passes underneath the clavicle and on into the arm. If this somehow experiences compression, the nerves to the arm and hand will be affected.
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Brachial plexopathy refers to injury of the network of nerves going to the arm from the base of the neck, known as the brachial plexus.
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Neuralgic pain is felt along the path of one or more nerves and often has no obvious physical cause. The network of nerves involved in hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy, called the brachial plexus, ...
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Brachial palsy occurs when the brachial plexus (the group of nerves that supplies the arms and hands) is injured. It is most common when there is difficulty delivering the baby's shoulder, called shoulder dystocia.
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