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Can anyone help?
I'm trying to "decode" my birth records. What should they be if are considered normal? Should the unaffected arm be the same as the affected arm?
What's B for bicep? am I close?

Tracy

O.K. That sounds pretty stupid. I am just really upset. Somehow I have managed to lose a post that I have been working on all day and tried to do it the easy way. I think I will go to bed now I try again tomorrow. Just frustrated!!!

Tracy

Here's a good site which should help you decode your records. http://www.neuroexam.com/content.php?p=31 I saw them doing these tests to my babies without knowing what they were for. Interesting stuff!
Jen NZ

Thanks Jenny, I found the article very helpful too.
I'm living proof that your're never too old to learn!
Hugs all around,
Carolyn J

thanks- very informative.

marlyn

Looking it up led me to this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... query_hl=4

Kate

Thanks everyone.

Having a bad day with the pains today.

This is some of what is listed on progress notes:
10-26-72
Ped.
"difficult delivery and required a great deal of tugging and pulling on the baby" "baby was thought to have a fractured clavicle and an erb's paralysis on the left." "x-rays were repeated-no fracture" "There was definitely an erb's paralysis"

12-5-72
6 weeks old
Neuro.
Traumatic Torticollis
weakness of r c5,c6,c7,c8

1-16-73
Neuro.
12 WEEKS OLD

DTR B T BR F H P A P I DO NOT (EB?)
R 1 1 1 - - 2 2 UP A BICEP INFLEX
L 1 1 1 - - 2 2 UP R TRICEP, R+-
(WRITING IS MESSY)

I don't see any other tests until I had complained and complained(etc.) about r/arm shoulder pain and headaches then there is:

5-2-88
Neuro.
"She had right Erb's palsy when younger, and still has limited abduction of her right elbow, with smallness in her right arm, Deep tendon reflexes are absent in her right arm, but normal in her left arm and in both legs. She has no pathological reflexes. Her gait is normal, except for decreased arm swing on the right."

Of course It was just a strain!!! Nothing was ever related to my birth injury.

I will read and write more when feeling better.
I think I have let stress get the best of me.
I know there better days to come. Trying to keep a positive outlook. Thanks for the hug. I really needed it.Thanks again for input. All for now.

Tracy
ROBPI

it did not post like i had it under 1-16-73(DTR)???
I tried to put like they had it on my chart.

b= 1 both r & l
t= 1 both r & l
br=1 both r & l
f= - both r & l
h= - both r & l
p= 2 both r & l
a= 2 both r & l
p= arrow going up both r & l

does this make sense?

Tracy