Details of a 23 year old patient who suffered the spontaneous onset of an anterior interosseous nerve palsy are recorded together with the results of a full neurophysiological investigation. Isolated lesions of the anterior interosseous nerve are rare and there are no recorded cases with comprehensive neurophysiological investigation. The anterior interosseous nerve is a purely motor nerve and ...

The anterior interosseous nerve is a branch of the median nerve. It arises from the median nerve just distal to the antecubital fossa, about 5.5 cm distal to the medial epicondyle of the humerus. [2] It passes along the interosseous membrane between the ulna and radius. It terminates in the pronator quadratus muscle around the level of the wrist. It is largely a motor nerve. It supplies the fle...

In the correction of footdrop due to leprosy neuritis the tibialis posterior muscle is re-routed and used to provide dorsiflexion of the foot. This study of tibialis posterior transfer was carried out to compare the results of the circumtibial and interosseous routes. There is no significant difference in the range of motion between either route through the range of the interosseous route is mo...

Background: Parsonage-Turner syndrome (PTS) is an underdiagnosed disorder characterized by the acute onset of severe pain in shoulder/scapula/arm followed muscle weakness/numbness distribution nerves derived from brachial plexus (BP). Surgical procedures are one several antecedent events PTS. This study describes clinical spectrum postsurgical (PSPTS) a large cohort patients. Materials and meth...