A form of paralysis due to an injury during birth, affecting the forearm and hand.
Paralysis of the forearm resulting from injury to the lower brachial plexus. Klumpke paralysis is present from birth, most often with breech deliveries. It is often associated with other problems, such as Horner syndrome.
A partial paralysis of the lower arm caused by injury to a baby’s brachial plexus during birth. This may result from an obstetric maneuver in which the arm is raised at the shoulder to an extreme degree, which damages the lower cervical (neck) and upper thoracic (chest) nerve roots of the spinal cord. It results in weakness and wasting of the muscles of the hand.
Partial paralysis of the arm, with atrophy of the muscles of the forearm and hand. The condition may be caused by injury as a result of the stretching of the lower nerve roots of a baby’s brachial plexus.
Paralysis occurs in the lower arm, leading to the atrophy of the hand’s minor muscles. This is accompanied by numbness in the fingers, excluding the thumb, and the inner side of the forearm.
Klumpke’s paralysis arises from damage to the eighth cervical and first thoracic nerves, which are part of the spinal nerves located in the brachial plexus, a nerve network situated behind the shoulder blade. This damage is typically due to a shoulder injury.
Weakness or loss of motion in the wrist and fingers, caused by nerve injury near the neck area, typically due to excessive pressure on the baby’s head and neck during delivery.