In this study, we designed and implanted two epineural cuffs on the median and radial nerves in the distal brachial plexus of a single Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) monkey. The cuffs were ...

Traumatic neuroma (TN) is a repair response of nerves to direct/indirect trauma or chronic inflammatory injury, commonly occurring after trauma or surgery. The authors report a rare case of a ...

A brachial plexus injury affects the nerves in the shoulder. These nerves carry movement and sensory signals to the arm and hand. Symptoms can include pain in the arm or hand along with numbness and ...

In their current study, which has been published in the journal eLife, the researchers investigated its effect on human nerve cells that they had cultivated from stem cells. The result ...

form a bundle of nerves in an area of the shoulder. They are referred to as the brachial plexus. Each nerve begins to branch out as it travels down the shoulders, through the armpits ...

Proper motor function depends on an intact nerve complex to conduct impulses between the central and peripheral nervous systems. Neurons, consisting of are incapable of undergoing mitosis after birth.

The patient in the case study had increased MRI signal intensity of the lumbosacral plexus, the intercostal nerves, and the brachial plexus, along with synchronous bilateral asymmetric thickening of ...

Erb’s palsy is often the result of an injury at birth that damages the brachial plexus, a network of nerves located in the spinal cord, back, and neck. In some cases, this nerve damage may be caused ...

Hospital for Special Surgery has been a destination for many types of pediatric nerve injuries that affect the upper and lower extremities, including those of the brachial plexus. Our team is made up ...