brachial plexus injury

[emad]

Well. I used to depend mainly on motor evaluation of muscle power to know the degree of nerve injury ,but seems you depend on doctors and surgeons reports of EMG . So i can not know from you what the degree of nerve injury except you tell me what the child can do as hand closure and opening ...it is really difficult without seeing the child !!!!

cheers
Emad

[spandanphysio]

u r right emad main difficulty is that v r not able to see pt here.well she can close fist with wrist flexion.can pronate the elbow and addudt the shoulder.

[estherderu]

dear everybody,

especially for people not being able to see a physiotherapist... patient information is important.
I suggest you go to page 2 for my anwer to a similar question.
Thread newborn diagnosed with Erb´s Palsy,
and the following guidelines will be of some help.
http://www.ubpn.org/awareness/A2002storment.pdf

good luck to you all

kind regards

Esther de Ru

[emad]

Well, Early Surgical intervention is appropriate in severe flaccid cases which result from complete avulsion of the roots , however this is not common . So that ,giving chance for regeneration and Gentle handle of rehabailitation is good choice .I saw many cases and fallowed them ,what concerns me really the child tends to use the non-affected limb and that problem can not be approached through surgery because it is just behavior !!!

cheers
Emad

[MaryamPT]

dear everybody,

especially for people not being able to see a physiotherapist... patient information is important.
I suggest you go to page 2 for my anwer to a similar question.
Thread newborn diagnosed with Erb´s Palsy,
and the following guidelines will be of some help.
http://www.ubpn.org/awareness/A2002storment.pdf

good luck to you all

kind regards

Esther de Ru

Unfortunately thelinks is not working

[estherderu]

Dear Maryam,

I can imagine. This link was put on the web nearly 5 years ago.
I presume the website has changed or the link is no longer valid.
I suggest you go to the original website http://www.ubpn.org/ and you may be able to find the newest version there.

kind regards Esther