{"id":6724,"date":"2016-09-08T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/uncategorized\/medical-malpractice-birth-injuries-erbs-palsy\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T22:06:10","slug":"medical-malpractice-birth-injuries-erbs-palsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/article\/medical-malpractice-birth-injuries-erbs-palsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Malpractice Birth Injuries: Erb&#039;s Palsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A birth related injury unfortunately seen suffered at an alarming rate due to medical negligence is Erb\u2019s palsy.\u00a0 Erb\u2019s palsy is a condition caused by damage to the brachial plexus nerves.\u00a0 The brachial plexus is a network of nerves which begin in the area of the neck and stretch throughout the arm.\u00a0 In cases of <a href=\"\/practice-areas\/medical-malpractice\/erbs-palsy\/\">Erb\u2019s palsy<\/a>, the upper brachial plexus nerves are damaged.\u00a0 This is most commonly caused at birth during the delivery of a child.<\/p>\n<p>This type of birth injury is often caused when the baby\u2019s shoulder becomes stuck during delivery, which is referred to as shoulder dystocia.\u00a0 In some situations, the babies head is able to be delivered, however in others, the shoulder becomes stuck and the rest of the baby becomes stuck in the birth canal.\u00a0 This sometimes occurs when the baby is too large to be delivered vaginally.\u00a0 When this does occur, the baby must be delivered quickly.\u00a0 However, physicians must take steps and precautions not to apply excess force to the baby\u2019s neck during delivery.\u00a0 If excess force is applied while the shoulder is stuck, the nerves which connect the child\u2019s shoulder, arm, and hand can be damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the level of damage done to the nerves, a child may be facing a permanent injury which could cause a debilitating disability for life.\u00a0 This can include a limited use of the arm, a paralyzed arm, lack of muscle control, decreased sensation or lack of growth of the arm and complete inability to move the arm at the elbow.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe child has possibly suffered a brachial plexus\/Erb\u2019s palsy injury at birth due to medical negligence, you must not delay in consulting with medical malpractice attorneys who are experienced in such matters.\u00a0 The attorneys at Napoli Shkolnik  have years of experience handling cases involving <a href=\"\/practice-areas\/medical-malpractice\/\">medical malpractice<\/a>, birth injuries, and specifically Erb\u2019s palsy injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A birth related injury unfortunately seen suffered at an alarming rate due to medical negligence is Erb\u2019s palsy.\u00a0 Erb\u2019s palsy is a condition caused by damage to the brachial plexus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medical-malpractice"],"acf":[],"page_builder_type":"gutenberg","gutenberg_data":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}