Current Management of Obstetrical Brachial Plexus Injuries at Texas Children's Hospital Brachial Plexus Center and Baylor College of Medicine

Current Concepts in the Management of Obstetrical Brachial Plexus Injuries

The existence of birth palsies of the upper limbs has been noted for a very long time. However, there have existed several misconceptions about the prognosis and eventual functional recovery. All forms of palsy noted at birth are termed “Erb’s palsy.” Most doctors feel that these injuries always recover spontaneously and such babies always “do well” in the long-term. Often, “physiotherapy” is t...

Management of brachial plexus injuries.

Most brachial plexus lesions are traction injuries sustained during birth, but in adolescents and older people they are usually caused by traffic accidents or following a fall in the home. A minority are the result of penetrating injury after civilian assault or trauma encountered during wartime. Birth palsy cases (obstetric brachial plexus palsy) and the remaining cases (traumatic briachial pl...

Brachial plexus injuries.

Injuries to the brachial plexus are common and are the most severe of all lesions of peripheral nerves, but the last 25 years have seen considerable advances in treatment. Much of this improvement followed the restatement of surgical principles regarding the treatment of wounds, and the application of methods of diagnosis and techniques of nerve repair which had been established much earlier. I...

Infraclavicular Brachial Plexus Injuries.

Shoulder contracture and osseous deformity in obstetrical brachial plexus injuries.

BACKGROUND The purposes of this study were to determine the prevalence of and the association between shoulder contracture and osseous deformity in a cohort of children with an obstetrical brachial plexus injury and to identify the risk factors for these complications. METHODS In a retrospective cohort study, all children with an obstetrical brachial plexus injury who had been born between Ja...