Complications: C5 Palsy

Dr. Bruce Darden, II, discusses the causes and avoidance of C5 palsy in cervical surgery.
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Keywords: C5 palsy, laminoplasty, laminectomy and fusion, anterior cervical fusion
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[@joey123456paul]

Any comment on nerve transfer surgery for patients who do not recover motor function?

[@Thaojennyduong]

I have C5/C6 nerve pinched, my surgery order pain management epidural first before the last decision is surgery. I am scare . And I also have L4/L5 narrow. Just have epidural shot lasted week 8days . The first 2 days no pain , I walk normal around the home . Then 3rd day I start to get sciatica pain is back t server like it before ? Until now 8 days went by the shooting pain/numb /tingling on both leg like the symptom before have epidural done . But the weakness on my leg leg is worse than before . At this moment I don’t even what else is work ? I have my first MRI back in 2018 it was arthritis . I was 39 years old at the time . Then 2020 I took Covid shot , I can not even crawl out the bed after 12 hours from the shot . And now I have all of this symptom . My Doctor is denials it could be the side effects after Covid shot . Then this year 2023 he order MRI it cam back with server pain , narrow/nerve pinched. I am dealing with neck shooting pain to shoulder/arm /Fingers/thumb, I can not drive far then 15/20 minutes from home because the shooting pain /radiated down will shot down to the right leg . Which is use for the car gas/break paddle . So I don’t go no where if I don’t have to . And I am now 44 years old Asian women . As now my symptom is worse so if epidural does not work I have to get surgery. So I have disability Lawer start to file my case . Because it will take up 2 years from now to neither approve or denials .

[@willieverusethis]

The more I watch these videos on back surgery the less inclined I am to have it done.

[@petergianakopoulos4926]

Mechanism is unknown.