THE CREATIVE SPARK

 Cancer is a disease that has crippled people for centuries. Be it mentally, physically or emotionally. Hearing someone being diagnosed with Cancer is itself more tragic than the disease itself; the whole family is suffers from cancer and its effects. Especially those who have seen neurological cancers; their whole life is centred around that person.  Early diagnosed cancers are a blessing because they can be treated surgically or by drugs, but those that are asymptomatic for a long period of time and then occur suddenly with clinical presentation, are most problematic as people tend to lose the functionality of the part where it occurs, or they either die because of the severity, but a few survive by battling it, and pediatric age group is most important age group where a cancer can mean life and death situation. Pediatric cancers generally occur in bone, blood or CNS. Majority of them occur in form of leukaemia, lymphoma, or Bone marrow pathology, sometimes osteosarcoma may ...

The deformities and injuries that lead to the neuronal damage is called as nerve injury. It can be caused by trauma or can be present by birth. But most commonly, trauma is the leading cause of nerve injuries. Axillary nerve and musculocutaneous nerve -    Root value - C5 and C6 Axillary nerve has a sensitive part and motor part. Sensory part is called as the Regimental Badge area.  Most common cause of axillary nerve injury is shoulder dislocation. It presents as adduction + internal rotation. Management is very easy. Using splint that holds the arm in abduction + external rotation position. Musculocutaneous nerve presents as extension and pronation of the limb. Most commonly caused by the dislocation of shoulder. Median nerve -    Also called as the labourer's nerve. Supplies the flexor component of the forearm including the thenar eminences, lumbricles 1 & 2. Injury to the median nerve can occur at the following areas -  1. @wrist - wasting of muscle...