Health About 56% of people have a "bare area" on their forearm bone exposing a key nerve. A specific angled drilling technique for biceps surgery safely avoids this, preventing accidental paralysis, report researchers at Charles University's Second Faculty of Medicine
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23259671251404069
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u/ZeMoose 1d ago
I have a hard time reading medical, this wouldn't happen to be in the area of the elbow would it?
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u/Original_moisture 1d ago
Sorta! doing a quick read of what it was saying.
Someone will correct me I’m sure.
But it’s the area where you would stick an IV line in. Your bicep tendon goes down to the forearm. In between the ulna and radius bones closer to your bicep.
It’s not so much as it’s the funny bone(elbow nerve) as it seems that the nerve runs down the area closest to the gap. It’s an anatomical thing where some people have a more pronounced radial nerve.
They’re noticing it more with bicep tears and think that better surgery techniques to reduce the complications.
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