About one in 1,000 children are born with brachial plexus birth injury (BPBI), upper extremity weakness or paralysis ...

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.

At this stage, the diagnostic evaluation includes a more extensive assessment of motor and sensory function, determination of the level of spinal nerve injury level with a neonatal sensory ...

The motor neuron response from peripheral nerve stimulation on the unaffected side showed a normal signal configuration and latency period (21 ms). The diagnosis of a complete brachial plexus ...