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Brachial Neuritis

 

            
            
             Audience: Medical students in pre-medical school.
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
             Though the cause is unclear, many researchers and physicians agree that .
             surgical procedures and immunizations are possible causes of brachial neuritis. .
             Those who are diagnosed with brachial neuritis, depending on the severity of the .
             disorder will have available different medications and alternative treatments used .
             to help combat this disorder. .
             What is brachial neuritis? Brachial neuritis is a condition involving .
             decreased movement or sensation in the arm and shoulder caused by impaired .
             function of the brachial plexus, a nerve area that affects the arm followed by .
             several days of severe pain and discomfort (Health Central 1). The common.
             diagnosis of patients with acute brachial plexus neuritis is severe, .
             acute, burning pain in the shoulder and upper arm with no apparent cause. On .
             occasion, it may awaken the patient from sleep. In the majority of patients, the .
             pain subsides over the next few days to weeks, resulting in a weakness .
             in the upper arm--at times to the point of muscle flaccidity. The profile .
             of initial arm and shoulder pain followed by muscle weakness as the pain subsides .
             is an important characteristic of acute brachial plexus neuritis (Miller, Pruitt, and .
             McDonald 3). .
             The brachial plexus is part of the nervous system that is a channel for the relay of .
             sensory and motor impulses between the central nervous system on the one hand .
             and the body surface, skeletal muscles, and internal organs on the other hand, and .
             is composed of spinal nerves, cranial nerves, and certain parts of the autonomic .
             nervous system. The brachial plexus nerve pathways are made up of neurons (that .
             is, nerve cell bodies and their axons and dendrites) as well as the points at which .
             one neuron communicates with the next (that is, the synapse). The structures .
             commonly known as nerves (or by such names as roots, rami, trunks, and .
             branches) are actually composed of orderly arrangements of the axonal and .


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