Anatom3DRoots of brachial plexus
Radices plexus brachialis · Kořeny pažní pleteně
Nervous system
Looks like
The front branches of the C5 to T1 spinal nerves, emerging between the scalene muscles in the side of the neck.
What it does
Form the whole brachial plexus, which supplies the shoulder, arm and hand.
Keeping it well
Can be torn from the cord in high-energy injuries, causing a paralysed arm; early specialist surgery improves recovery.
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Myasthenia gravis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shoulder dislocation
- Tetanus
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies