KINESIOL 3K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Brachial Plexus, Neurapraxia, Spinal Cord Injury
12 Apr 2016
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Number of nerves coming together that will travel down and feed the arm (c5-t1) Roots that come from the spinal cord and exit at the vertebrae. Squeeze together through the scalenes, travel down under the clavicle. By the ime they get to the armpit, everything starts to separate and become individual nerves. Neuropraxia: nervous issue has sustained some sort of trauma but sill intact, ability to send and receive messages is impaired at the moment (funcional, symptoms for minutes to a couple days. Singer: a neuropraxia that efects the brachial plexus (bp) If we sustain enough of these we can take it to a level where the is a mechanical disrupion (structural), move up the severity where the bp is torn, more consequences. Axonotmesis/neurotmesis: the in-between, when we get to the point where have physical disrupion, up to 3 months of symptoms, physical disrupions nerve that has to heal, very slow, symptoms longer than 3 months.
