Obstetric Brachial Palsy Recovery Mechanism

Abstract

A group of 162 infants (aged 4-14 months) with obstetric brachial palsy (OBP) and a group of 184 child and adult patients (aged 6-74 years) with a traumatic brachial plexus lesion were compared, using an EMG and nerve-conduction-study protocol, developed since 1985 at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Atrium Medisch Centrum, Heerlen, The Netherlands.

Keywords

• obstetric brachial palsy
• biceps brachii
• deltoid muscles