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Muscle Spasticity

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A form of muscle hypertonia associated with upper MOTOR NEURON DISEASE. Resistance to passive stretch of a spastic muscle results in minimal initial resistance (a \"free interval\") followed by an incremental increase in muscle tone. Tone increases in proportion to the velocity of stretch. Spasticity is usually accompanied by HYPERREFLEXIA and variable degrees of MUSCLE WEAKNESS. ,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 314 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.7671, 1949

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.7671
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 8 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: spastic gait; and mental backwardness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949

PR2.7726, 1949

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.7726
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 10 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: mental backwardness; and spastic paresis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949

PR2.7918, 1949-1950

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.7918
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: inability to walk; fatigue; dizziness; numbness; spasticity; and degenerative spinal cord lesion. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949-1950

PR2.7969, 1949-1951

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.7969
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 47 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: headache; staggering; spasticity; and post-encephalitic Parkinsonism. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949-1951

PR2.8103, 1949

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8103
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 58 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: spinal cord damage; leg pain; leg swelling; and tetra-spasticity. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949

PR2.8104, 1949

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8104
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 48 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: spasticity; backache; and subacute combined degeneration. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949

PR2.8365, 1949-1950

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8365
Scope and Contents

Chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: convulsions; intellectual disability; and spastic hemiplegia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949-1950

PR2.8390, 1949-1962

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8390
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: headache; aphasia; glioblastoma; papilloedema; and spastic paralysis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1949-1962

PR2.8452, 1950-1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8452
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 25 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: spina bifida; lipoma; walking difficulty; meningocele; spasticity; cervical cord compression; and Arnold-Chiari malformation. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950-1954

PR2.8943, 1950

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8943
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: headache; hypaesthesia; cerebral atrophy; and spastic weakness of leg. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950