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Flexion-Adduction Sign

Flexion-Adduction Sign

Neuralgic amyotrophy (Parsonage-Turner syndrome) may cause arm pain, which may be prevented by holding the arm flexed at the elbow and adducted at the shoulder.

  1. Waxman SG. The flexion-adduction sign in neuralgic amyotrophy.

Neurology 1979; 29: 1301-1304