United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

My daughter, Kelly, had a complete brachial plexus avulsion from being thrown from a car in 2000. She had nerve transplant surgery by DR Nath from Texas. She got feeling in the right arm and some limited movement in her tricep. She is looking at the DREZ procedure at Duke U for the pain and also has been considering amputation. She is now a Sophomore in College and the school newspaper photographer (with one useful arm). WE just joined.

bumping up......

Car accident rolled 7 times left tbpi since 2001

Hello,

We're from MN. My husband injured himself in a Motocross accident. This happened in September '07. He had humeral head split fracture which was disclocated, resulting in his bpi. We go to Mayo in a week, hopefully to get more answers!

Hi My name is Joe from Ohio but my nick is Greeny. I developed my BPI by being operated on Mar 07 for rotator cuff/bicep tendon tears and the doctor entrapped 2 nerves and the artery in 2 sutures and forgot about them and closed me up. This in turn caused me to undergoe 2 arterial bypasses with viens out of both legs to replenish bloodflow to my left dominant hand. In Jun 07, Cleveland Clinic nuerology removed the sutures from the entrapped nerves and artery. Still undergoing both PT for the shoulder and OPT for the hand. Amazing how you go from driving yourself to surgery and signing all the papers to losing your dominant hand when you wake up in recovery. But I am dealing with it day to day!

hello everyone I m fairly new to this I have 21 yr old son with rt. bpi.. God Bless each and everyone of you this has been very difficult for us.

oh his injury 3/29/07 auto accident avulsion of c7,c8and t1

hi it has been a long time, since 2002 since i have been on here,
Errett my son was the one with the injury, but he got 90% recover back, and while i'm here, i'm proud to say He (Errett) just got his college dergee to be a history teacher/coach,
he was hurt 10/31/1997, surgery 4/7/1998, relessed from doctor David Kline and Robert Tiel on 2/23/2002.
i was just called from a friend and her graddaughter was hurt in a car wreak, and has the same injury Errett had and was asking me question, so i got back on here,

Been off fighting the war on terror. Not...!My name is Brandon I live in Washington state I have RBPI due to a severe mountain bike accident in Maui, Hi. Nice to see so many ppl like me.

New to this as of today,developed LBPI after I was t-boned in my door 12/6 of this year and have a C5-6 herniation... looking for answers before I see the neurosurgeon in 3 weeks...