A person with wrist drop would be unable to move from this position to one in which the fingers are pointing up towards the ceiling.

Stab wounds to the chest at or below the clavicle may result in wrist drop.

Wrist drop and foot drop (leading to difficulty walking) are common symptoms.

To demonstrate wrist drop, hold your arm out in front of you with your forearm parallel to the floor.

It is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop.

The following situations may result in wrist drop:

If the tendons, the muscles, or the nerves supplying these muscles, are not working as they should be, wrist drop may occur.

Wrist drop is also associated with lead poisoning because of the effect of lead on the radial nerve.

Galeazzi fractures are sometimes associated with wrist drop due to injury to radial nerve, extensor tendons or muscles.

The workup for wrist drop frequently includes nerve conduction velocity studies to isolate and confirm the radial nerve as the source of the problem.

Wrist drop, also known as radial nerve palsy, or Saturday night palsy, is a condition where a person cannot extend their wrist and it hangs flaccidly.

Maggy checked almost imperceptibly as she saw the assembled company, and let her injured wrist drop to her side despite the shooting pain that made her grit her teeth.

An example of this is wrist drop, in which the fingers, hand, or wrist is cronically in a flexed position because the radial nerve cannot innervate the extensor muscles due to paralysis.

Signs that occur in adults at blood lead levels exceeding 100 μg/dL include wrist drop and foot drop, and signs of encephalopathy (a condition characterized by brain swelling), such as those that accompany increased pressure within the skull, delirium, coma, seizures, and headache.