Spinal accessory nerve (CN XI)

The spinal accessory nerve is the 11th cranial nerve. So why is it called the spinal accessory nerve?
We'll look at its origins (but not the nuclei that it comes from), how it enters and leaves the skull, the route it takes to the neck and the muscles that it innervates.
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This was VERY VERY helpful and thorough enough to bring it all together! Every word was important to me! (More people seem to have shoulder and neck problems and many may find this lesson in their search for answers.) Thank you!!

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Hi have spinal accessory nerve palsy. Have you ever heard of anyone having the lesion right back before it goes through the foramen nagnum? My EMG results all point to preganglionic lesion. Have a great deal of problems with chewing and sometimes speaking when the muscles on the right side get exhausted. Of course also the scapula dysfunction. Just awaiting an Eden Lang procedure. No hope of restoring the nerve in any sense as this all happened 10 years ago. Fantastic teaching. Found this very informative. Thank you

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[@MirandaIVV]

This was incredibly informative and helpful to me. I had a direct injury to the spinal accessory nerve just below the level of Sternocleidomastoid. This paralysed my trapezius muscle and my main symptom was I could not abduct my arm beyond 90°. You would be amazed how many physicians (including a neurologist who got it wrong) I had to go through to find someone who could diagnose this. (Eventually diagnosed correctly by Neurophysiology/EMG). Luckily after a year it is now almost fully healed. The key to it that people don’t seem to understand is that the scapular needs to be fixed in order to abduct the arm. You have shown this so well I may have to show this video in my court case. Thanks

[@lkessler1]

@Ruthie Nixon, I was finally diagnosed with a SAN injury after 10 years, but mine is not healed. I would love to lift weights again without pain. Any thoughts on how you made progress toward healing your nerve?

[@MirandaIVV]

@@lkessler1 I’m so sorry, how awful that it didn’t heal. Ten years is a long time but it might be worth going to see a specialist nerve surgeon. I saw one before my nerve recovered most of its function on its own. He suggested that if the function didn’t come back that he could release the nerve which might be surrounded by fibrous tight scar tissue. It depends whether you had complete damage to nerve all the way through. It also depends on the cause of the damage. Did you have neorophysiology testing to ascertain the amount of damage?

[@lkessler1]

@@MirandaIVV First, thanks so much for responding. I was finally diagnosed after chasing the pain for 10 years via an EMG nerve test. They narrowed it down to my middle trap being effected. The good news (if there is any), is my injury was from a bicycling accident, so blunt force trauma versus the nerve being cut in surgery. I have scapular winging on the left and that is where all my pain is. The challenge has been finding the right doctor who can treat it. The doc that diagnosed me was a pain management doctor, so not a nerve doctor. I've kind of given up hoping of finding the right doc, but then every couple of years I begin the search again, hoping I'll find someone familiar with the issue.

[@MirandaIVV]

@@lkessler1 Are you in the UK?

[@lkessler1]

@@MirandaIVV no, in the US.

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