Brachial Plexus Surgery

The brachial plexus is the network of nerves that sends signals from your spinal cord to your shoulder, arm, and hand. A brachial plexus injury occurs when these nerves are stretched, compressed, or in the most serious cases, ripped apart or torn away from the spinal cord. Although nerve repairs and nerve grafts have been used in the past to reconstruct disrupted nerves in the brachial plexus, Brachial Plexus Surgery has met with variable success and was often inadequate to restore function in patients with severe injuries.