Nerve Injuries

Question 1

What term is used to describe a stretch injury to a nerve?

Answer 1

Nuerapraxia

Question 2

What nerve injuries show Wallerian degeneration?

Answer 2

Axonotmesis and neurotmesis

Question 3

What is neurotmesis?

Answer 3

This is a rupture or avulsion of the nerve where the axon and the nerve sheath are damaged and there is Wallerian degeneration.

Question 4

What name is given to a nerve injury where the axon is damaged but the nerve sheet may or may not be?

Answer 4

Axontmesis, this is usually caused by a compression injury.