Baby boy AA
Contact Mikal Grass
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3132 PONCE DE LEON BLVD.
CORAL GABLES FL 33134
Born with Erb's palsy,appears to be recovering on his own, available for adoption, Florida.
23.5K fees-agency & attorney
email: miamiadopt@gmail.com
Call: 1-954-439-2229
GENERAL INFORMATION
Erb's Palsy (Erb-Duchenne Palsy) is a paralysis of the arm caused by injury to the upper group of the arm's main nerves (specifically, spinal roots C5-C7), almost always occurring during birth. Depending on the nature of the damage, the paralysis can either resolve on its own over a period of months, necessitate physical therapy or require surgery
TREATMENT
Some babies recover on their own; however, some may require specialist intervention.
Neonatal / pediatric neurosurgery is often required for avulsion fracture repair. Lesions may heal over time and function return. Physio therapeutic care is often required to regain muscle usage.
Although range of motion is recovered in many children under one year in age, individuals who have not yet healed after this point will rarely gain full function in their arm and may develop arthritis.
The three most common treatments from Erb's Palsy are: Nerve transfers (usually from the opposite leg), Sub Scapularis releases and Latissimus Dorsi Tendon Transfers.
The nerve transplants are usually performed on babies under the age of 9 months since the fast development of younger babies increases the effectiveness of the procedure.They are not usually carried out on patients older than this because, although small babies nerves can recover to an extent, when the procedure is done on older infants, more harm than good is done and can result in nerve damage in the area where the nerves were taken from. Scarring can vary from faint scars along the lines of the neck to full "T" shapes across the whole shoulder depending on the training of the surgeon and the nature of the transplant.
Subscapularis releases, however, are not time limited. Since it is merely cutting a "Z" shape into the subscapularis muscle to provide stretch within the arm, it can be carried out at almost any age and can be carried out repeatedly on the same arm, however this will compromise the integrity on the muscle.
The Latissimus Dorsi Tendon Transfers involve cutting the Latissimus Dorsi in half horizontally in order to 'pull' part of the muscle around and attach it to the outside of the biceps. This procedure provides external rotation to varying degrees of success. A side effect of this may be increased sensitivity on the part of the biceps where the muscle will now lie since the Latissimus Dorsi has roughly twice the amount of nerve endings per square inch than other muscles.
