There is a specific set of circumstances under which
brachial plexus injuries most commonly happen, and that is when shoulder dystocia occurs.
The Mayo Clinic cites the following ways in which
brachial plexus injuries most often occur during difficult childbirths:
Not exact matches
almost died, and suffers a severe
brachial plexus injury while I ripped end to end and broke my tailbone... Safest, calmest,
most fulfilling, my arse.
It has been traditionally thought that
most brachial plexus injuries result from stretching of the nerves of the
brachial plexus during delivery.
Among several birth
injuries, one of the
most common from which children suffer is known as
brachial plexus palsy.
One of the
most common causes of
brachial plexus injuries is complications during the birthing process.