Symptoms of brachial plexus injury

Update Date: 2021-06-10 Source: Network

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Brachial plexus injury is a common perinatal nerve injury, and its incidence is positively proportional to the birth weight of the child. The incidence of children with birth weight less than 4 kg is 0.9%, while the incidence of children with birth weight more than 4.5 kg is 2%. Brachial plexus injury recovery symptoms? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of brachial plexus injury

Children with brachial plexus injury may cause brachial plexus dysfunction, axonal rupture, nerve rupture, avulsion and neuroma formation. If it is simple nerve disuse or axonal rupture, it may return to normal by itself. Therefore, obstetricians sometimes tell their parents to wait and see when they encounter children with brachial plexus injury. After a period of time, they will be fine.

According to the observation report of water PM, the upper limb function of infants whose biceps muscle strength has recovered at 2 months old can be normal. However, infants with a recovery period of more than 3 months will have persistent neurological deficits. In addition, if the injury does not improve completely within 2 weeks, the upper limb function is unlikely to return to normal.

The delayed appearance of normal function and the imbalance of upper limb joint muscles will have a negative impact on the growth of bones. Therefore, we can not simply observe, we must accurately grasp the opportunity, early active intervention. In the early stage, we can consider conservative treatment, using a full range of joint activity training, muscle strength training, sensory and posture education and equipment training to correct upper limb function.

matters needing attention

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