Brachial neuritis ,Parsonage turner - Everything You Need To Know - Dr. Nabil Ebraheim

Dr. Ebraheim’s educational animated video describes the Acute Brachial Neuritis. This is a very important topic for the clinical practice and it may also appear on examinations. Brachial neuritis is also referred to as: • Neuralgic Amyotrophy (NA). • Parsonage – Turner Syndrome. It is a condition of severe shoulder pain that usually radiates down the arm and up the neck and scapula, the pain is sudden, severe and may last weeks. This pain may wake people up from sleep, it usually happens by itself without a history of trauma. It can occur more in males and can affect any age. The position of comfort is the shoulder adducted with the elbow flexed, and it’s called the Adduction/ Flexion sign of Acute Brachial Neuritis. Neck movement and Valsalva’s maneuver do not increase the pain; the pain will increase by moving the arm. Although the pain is severe and sudden, lasting at least a few weeks, the condition is usually under diagnosed or not diagnosed at all, or there is a delay in th