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Brachial Plexus Injury | Amandeep Hospital

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If you’ve got sustained a fall from a motorcycle, been hit on the shoulder, experienced the sudden jerky movement of the shoulder or any kind of injury within the neck and you discover it impossible to maneuver your arm, then you presumably have injured your plexus brachialis. this type of injury requires very early intervention by a specialist surgeon, most frequently a cosmetic surgeon, failing which there are often a permanent disability with total, permanent loss of movements of the upper limb So what’s this plexus brachialis and why is it so important? They are a group of nerves that arise from the medulla spinalis within the neck region and pass down through the neck into the arm, supplying the muscles of the arm, forearm, hand, and fingers. These nerves also carry sensation from the upper limb. So when these nerves are injured, loss of function of the affected muscle will occur. Injury can involve one or all the nerves causing paralysis to some or all the muscles of the upp...