Summary:
By Express News ServiceBENGALURU: When 3-month-old Vaishnavi was born, she could not move her left upper limb and shoulder. Her nerves connecting the neck to the upper limb, called brachial plexus, had got stretched and injured during labour. Doctors at Manipal Hospital conducted five-hour microsurgery three weeks ago, to treat the rare condition called Brachial plexus birth palsy. They reconstructed the nerves by taking some from the leg to fill in the gap in the neck region, where the nerves were injured. It is not an overnight process and improvement happens until two to three years of age,” Dr Bharat Kadadi, specialist, hand, wrist and microvascular surgeon at Manipal Hospital, Malleshwaram, said..