Patients with neck pain have difficulty with making a fist, especially a tight fist secondary to pain in the wrists and fingers. To have a powerful grip while tightening the fist, the following conditions have to be present: the thumb must be able to bend across the...
Patients with neck pain often also have pain in the upper limb. In fact, they may present initially with upper limb pain and often, irritation of the brachial plexus is considered in the absence of complaints of neck pain. Whether the patient’s primary...
Peripheral nerves from the lateral cord (3 in number): Lateral head of the median nerve (C5, C6, C7 supplies the pronator teres, flexor carpi radialis, palmaris longus). The median nerve supplies sensation to the skin over the thenar eminence, lateral three and a half...
Patients with neck pain can present with pain in the arm also. Many patients may also present with arm pain without complaints of neck pain. In such a situation, a careful history will reveal past history of neck pain and almost always a past history of trauma. Also,...
Nerves from the medial cord (5):Medial pectoral nerve (C8, T1): Supplies the sternal head of the pectoralis major muscle. Sternal head is also supplied by the lateral pectoral nerve)Medial cutaneous nerve of the arm (T1): supplies the medial armMedial cutaneous nerve...
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