Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Serratus muscle stimulation effectively treats notalgia paresthetica caused by long thoracic nerve dysfunction: a case series. | Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury BioMed Central Open Access Case report Serratus muscle stimulation effectively treats notalgia paresthetica caused by long thoracic nerve dysfunction a case series Charlie K Wang1 Alpana Gowda2 Meredith Barad1 2 Sean C Mackey1 2 and Ian R Carroll 1 2 Address Department of Anesthesia Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab Palo Alto CA USA and 2Department of Anesthesia Division of Pain Management Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford Pain Management Clinic Redwood City CA USA Email Charlie KWang - cwang47@ Alpana Gowda - agowda@ Meredith Barad - mbarad@ Sean C Mackey - smackey@ Ian R Carroll - irc39@ Corresponding author Published 22 September 2009 Received 7 August 2009 Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2009 4 17 doi l 749-7221-4-17 Accepted 22 September 2009 This article is available from http content 4 1 17 2009 Wang et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Currently notalgia paresthetica NP is a poorly-understood condition diagnosed on the basis of pruritus pain or both in the area medial to the scapula and lateral to the thoracic spine. It has been proposed that NP is caused by degenerative changes to the T2-T6 vertebrae genetic disposition or nerve entrapment of the posterior rami of spinal nerves arising at T2-T6. Despite considerable research the etiology of NP remains unclear and a multitude of different treatment modalities have correspondingly met with varying degrees of success. Here we demonstrate that