Episode 283 – Neurology VMR – Right arm weakness
The Clinical Problem Solvers
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The Neuromuscular Junction in the Cervical Spinal Cord
The hand has a huge representation in the motor strip, right? We're able to do lots of very dexterous things with our hands from things we all do every day like type and use our phones. So you can get a lesion in the brain itself that will only affect the arm and hand or maybe the patient has some subtle facial weakness that they haven't noticed because the hand is so prominent. It could be in the cervical spine, as Sri Dara said, and it could be a problem with the brachial plexus or one or more roots or one orMore nerves. A neuromuscular junction process just affecting one limb probably doesn't fit a little bit of
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