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If you have suffered a brachial plexus injury which you believe to be as a result of someone else’s negligence, o ur solicitors are on hand to provide advice and assistance to help you make a claim for personal injury compensation.
What is the brachial plexus?
The brachial plexus is the network of nerves extending from the nerve root in the neck. It passes through the armpit and branches out to form the nerves that supply sensations and movements to the arms, hands, and fingers.
What are the causes of a brachial plexus injury?
Injury to this nerve complex is common in people who play contact sports and is also known as a ‘burner’ or ‘stinger’. It is caused by a traumatic stretching or compression of the brachial plexus during high contact sports like rugby and football. Other causes of brachial plexus injury involve a fall on the shoulder, a car crash accident and a motorcycle accident.
Brachial plexus symptoms
The main symptom is burning pain originating in the neck and extending to the arm. There may be numbness or weakness in the arm. The distribution of the symptoms depends on the position of the injury.
JMW is one of the UK ’s leading personal injury solicitors (see Chambers Guide To The Legal Profession). Each year we recover in excess of £10 million in personal injury compensation for our clients who have been injured in all types of accident including car crash accidents, accidents at work, accidents in public places and clinical negligence. Our breadth of experience covers all type and severity of injury from minor whiplash to injuries of a catastrophic nature. Our approach to customer care is to treat people as individuals not just clients and to show sensitivity and respect throughout all stages of the claim.
We work on an ethical no win, no fee basis which means there is no financial outlay or risk to our clients in making a claim for personal injury compensation. If we cannot recover our costs and fees from the person at fault’s insurance company, you will be protected from all costs. You will not be liable for any fees and we will not take any deductions from your compensation*.
We offer free and confidential advice and will not pressure you to make a claim at any stage. If you are unsure whether to make a claim for a brachial plexus injury or would just like to talk to a member of our legal team, please call our claim advice team on 0808 144 0043. Alternatively, you can complete the online claim assessment opposite and we will get back to you.
Treatment for brachial plexus
To treat a brachial plexus injury, a doctor may recommend resting the neck and arms until the pain and symptoms are gone, as well as applying an ice pack on the neck and shoulders for up to thirty minutes every three to four hours for two to three days or until the pain goes away. The doctor may also recommend taking an anti-inflammatory medication and doing exercises to strengthen the neck. A chronic stiff neck as a result of a brachial plexus injury may be treated with heat, massage, or muscle stimulation.
Return to your normal day to day activities will be determined by how quickly the nerves recover. A patient should be able to have full range of motion in the neck, including being able to turn the head fully to look over both shoulders, and extend the head backward, forward and side to side as far as possible. If any of these actions causes burning in the neck or shoulder, the patient should not return to contact sports or other strenuous activity.
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