Brachial Plexus Center

Presentations and Publications

The Brachial Plexus Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center provides information on recent presentations, Pediatric Grand Rounds and recent publications.

Recent Presentations

The Brachial Plexus Center team presented at the Cincinnati Children's Brachial Plexus Conference, held at the Fifth Third Bank Auditorium on June 15 and 16, 2007. View the conference presentations.

Linda Michaud, MD, physical medicine and rehabilitation, Mohab Foad, MD, hand surgeon, and Susan Foad, MPH, outcomes coordinator, traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to represent Cincinnati Children's at the Club A. Narakas 15th International Symposium on Brachial Plexus Surgery. Read more about this presentation on the Incidence of Neonatal Brachial Plexus Injury in the US and Potential Risk Factors.

2007 Narakas Club Presentations

Mehlman, CT, Foad SL, Ying J. The Epidemiology of neonatal brachial plexus injury years 1997, 2000 and 2003. XV International Symposium on Brachial Plexus Surgery Club A. Narakas, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 15, 2007.

Prognosis Following Neonatal Brachial Plexus Palsy: An Evidence Based Review. Mehlman CT, Foad SL, Foad, MB, Yakuboff KP, Michaud LJ. XV International Symposium on Brachial Plexus Surgery Club A. Narakas, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 15, 2007.

Michaud LJ, Mehlman CT, Foad SL, Yakuboff KP: Use of botulinum toxin A in birth brachial plexus palsy. XV International Symposium on Brachial Plexus Surgery Club A. Narakas, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 15, 2007.

Pediatric Grand Rounds on Brachial Plexus Injuries

The Brachial Plexus Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center provides video links to pediatric grand rounds presentations given by members of the team. These clips may be accessed through Windows Media Player. In order to best view live and video-on-demand media feeds, please make sure your web browser and Windows Media Player are upgraded to the newest versions.

Frontiers in Neonatal Brachial Plexus Palsy
Roger Cornwall, MD
High Speed (Broadband)
Originally aired on April 21, 2009
Advances in Management of Neonatal Brachial Plexus Palsy
August 15, 2006
Kevin Yakuboff, MD, Linda Michaud, MD, Douglas Kinnett, MD
Low Speed (Dial Up)
High Speed (Broadband)
Brachial Plexus Injury
August 20, 2002
Charles Mehlman, DO, MPH and Linda Michaud, MD, PT
High Speed (Broadband)

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Recent Publications

Foad S, Mehlman C, Foad, M, Lippert, WC: Prognosis Following Neonatal Brachial Plexus Palsy: An Evidence-Based Review. Journal of Children's Orthopaedics 2009; 3 (6): 459-463.

Foad S, Mehlman C, Ying J: The Epidemiology of Neonatal Brachial Plexus Palsy in the United States. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 2008;90:1258-1264. View abstract. You may go to the JBJS website to get a free copy of the article www.ejbjs.org.

Schmitt C, Mehlman C, Meiss AL: Hyphenated History: Erb-Duchene Brachial Plexus Palsy. Am J Orthop. 2008; 37(7):356-358.

Little-Hayes P, Allgier A, Klein A: Embracing the Spirt of Inquiry - Creating an Evidence-Based Guideline for Using Constraint Induced Movement Therapy. OT Practice 2007, Vol 12, No 18.

Mehlman CT, Koepplinger ME. Hyphenated history: the Sever-L’Episcopo procedure. J Pediatr Orhop. 2007 Jul-Aug;27(5):533-6.

Mehlman C: Orthopaedics: Upper extremity problems. M. Hostetter, G. Lister, & Norman Seigel (Eds). Rudolph's pediatrics, 21st edition, pp. 2447-2448. New York: McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing Division, 2003.

Michaud L: Electrical Stimulation In Children. Physical Medicine & Rehab: State of the Art Reviews 2000, Vol 14, No 2.