Christopher Ellis breaks down three types of nerve injuries using a garden-hose analogy. Neuropraxia, caused by nerve compression like alcohol-induced drunkenness, has the best prognosis and often heals on its own. He then moves into axonotmesis and neurotmesis.
We kind of put nerve injuries into 3 major categories: neuropraxia, axonotmesis, and neurotmesis. Think of it like a kink in a garden hose. The idea on a Saturday night, maybe you've had some drinks with friends and you fall asleep and you wake up on the couch and suddenly you can't lift your wrist, your wrist up. So the drunken stupor overrides the signal from the body and you've compressed the nerve and now you have neuropraxia. But this has the best prognosis and you can get over pretty fast and you might not need any kind of intervention with this at all. So the next class is the axonotmesis.
