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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:

PR2.2267, 1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2267
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: spastic paresis; and hypertonus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944

PR2.2334, 1944/1950

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2334
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 42 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: progressive spinal cord disease; paraesthesiae; neuritis; and spastic paraparesis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944/1950

PR2.2365, 1944-1947

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2365
Scope and Contents

Notes, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 2 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: spastic diplegia; and fit. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944-1947

PR2.2464, 1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2464
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: leg pain; unsteadiness; weakness; anaemia; neuro-syphilis; spasticity; poor memory; disseminated sclerosis; loss of sight; bilateral optic atrophy; and haemorrhage. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1944

PR2.2838, 1944

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2838
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: unsteadiness; and spastic paresis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944

PR2.2855, 1930-1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2855
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 14 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: fits; and spastic gait. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1930-1945

PR2.2917, 1944-1945

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2917
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart, report, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 58 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: chondroma; backache; and spastic paraparesis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944-1945

PR2.3158, 1944-1945

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.3158
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 45 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; spastic monoparesis; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1944-1945

PR2.3219, 1945-1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.3219
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: hemiplegia; epilepsy; fits; and spastic paralysis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1945-1946

PR2.3303, 1945-1948

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.3303
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: tremor; unsteadiness; fatigue; spastic paresis; and progressive degenerative disorder. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1945-1948