Delayed Nerve Pain Years After an Elbow Laceration: Medial Antebrachial Cutaneous Neuropathy and Causation Analysis
Superficial lacerations near the elbow can raise complex medical-legal causation questions when a claimant later reports chronic nerve pain, weakness, loss of dexterity, disfigurement concerns, or emotional distress. The issue becomes especially difficult when the initial injury was minor, healed uneventfully, early records were silent for ongoing symptoms, the first electrodiagnostic study was normal, and a later study years afterward reports a cutaneous mononeuropathy.