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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:

PR2.1118, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1118
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 25 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; spasticity; and ataxia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942

PR2.1243, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1243
Scope and Contents

Notes relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 65 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: spastic paresis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942

PR2.1247, 1942-1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1247
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, notes, drawings, photographic negatives, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 37 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: meningocele; spasticity; ataxia; unsteadiness; and Klippel Feil syndrome. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942-1943

PR2.1430, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1430
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 9 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: birth injury; and spastic tetraplegia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943

PR2.1520, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1520
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 74 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: arteriosclerosis;; ataxia of the trunk; spasticity; brain-stem lesion; and nystagmus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943

PR2.1549, 1943-1947

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1549
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 51 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: headache; spastic paraplegia; disseminated sclerosis; and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1947

PR2.1550, 1943

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1550
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 31 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: spastic paraplegia; and lateral sclerosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943

PR2.1574, 1943-1960

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1574
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 43 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: shoulder pain; osteophytosis; tetraparesis; tetraspasticity; disseminated encephalomyelitis; and spondylosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1960

PR2.1657, 1943-1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1657
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: unsteadiness; euphoria; disseminated sclerosis; deafness; spasticity; and disseminated encephalomyelitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1946

PR2.1687, 1943

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1687
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 3 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: fits; spastic paresis; and mental defect. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943