โRADIAL NEUROPATHY Common causes include sleeping with the arm slung over a park bench (โSaturday night palsyโ), compression in the axilla by improper crutch use (โcrutch palsyโ), or fracture of the humerus damaging the nerve as it travels in the spiral groove.โ
Thatโs from the neuroanatomy book. You know, if I were a doctor, itโd never occur to me to ask a patient if they came in with radial neuropathy, โDid you sleep with your arm slung over a park bench last night?โ
I just would not think of that.