A physical therapist is treating a 13-year-old patient during a scheduled physical therapy visit. The patient was prescribed crutches for a lower extremity fracture and has non-weight bearing status. The patient is now complaining of right upper extremity weakness, numbness, and tingling. The therapist assesses the upper extremity and finds sensory impairment on the radial side of the dorsum of the hand over first dorsal interosseous muscle, and motor weakness of elbow flexion and extension, wrist extension and supination, and hand extension of metacarpophalangeal joints. The sensory and motor deficits described are MOST consistent with which neuropathy?

a) compressive radial neuropathy
b) compressive axillary neuropathy
c) compressive distal radial neuropathy
d) compressive ulnar neuropathy