BrainWaves #40 Teaching through clinical cases: Wrist drop

MedLink Neurology Podcast is delighted to feature selected episodes from BrainWaves, courtesy of James E Siegler MD, its originator and host. BrainWaves is an academic audio podcast whose mission is to educate medical providers through clinical cases and topical reviews in neurology, medicine, and the humanities, and episodes originally aired from 2016 to 2021.

Originally released: July 18, 2017

This week, I'm handing the mic over to Dr. Laura Mainardi so she can give us some pointers on the evaluation of hand weakness. We're thumbing through a few tips on working up wrist drop in particular. Hoping you give us two thumbs up on this one! ;-) BrainWaves podcasts and online content are intended for medical education only and should not be used to guide medical decision-making in routine clinical practice.

REFERENCES

Preston DC, Shapiro BE. Electromyography and Neuromuscular Disorders. 3rd ed. Saunders, 2013.

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