Compressive Peripheral Nerve Injuries in Earthquake Victims in Kahramanmaraş Earthquake on February 6, Our Clinical Observations

Background
 Earthquakes are one of the most common causes mortality and morbidity due to natural disasters. In particular, soft tissue musculoskeletal injuries types following earthquakes reason for hospital admission. Turkey is a region with very high risk earthquakes.
 Compression mechanically induced peripheral nerve injuries. Peripheral cause long-term disruptions in daily life, professional development, education. These important labor loss, especially young adult patients. The purpose our study emphasize importance early diagnosis treatment these by sharing observations on compressive seen earthquake victims after Kahramanmaraş February 6.
 Materials Methods
 We included patients injury who were admitted physical therapy clinic Adana City Hospital three months starting from 6, 2023. 
 Results mean age injured was 32.64±17.63 years. median time being pulled rubble 24 hours. 95.5% living Hatay province. sites legs (43.3%), arms (17.9%) forearms (16.4%). 31.3% had bone fractures. complaints weakness (31.3%), foot drops (29.9%), wrist (20.9%).
 Conclusion
 Earthquake disaster that can blunt penetrating serious Thus, it should be kept mind injuries, which significantly affect quality quite may overlooked during acute phase earthquakes.