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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:

PR2.4553, 1945-1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4553
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; back pain; leg pain; spinal cord compression; paraesthesia; and spastic paresis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1945-1946

PR2.4556, 1946

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4556
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: hyperaesthesia; intercostal pain; tremor; and spasticity. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946

PR2.4564, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4564
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 45 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral vascular accidents; hemiplegia; spastic hemiparesis; and haemorrhage. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946

PR2.4592, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4592
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 44 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral vascular accident; hemiplegia; epilepsy; and spasticity. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946

PR2.4593, 1946

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4593
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: spasticity; birth injury; cerebral damage; and mental retardation. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946

PR2.4600, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4600
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart, report, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: headache; weight gain; spastic paresis; hydrocephalus; and spongioblastoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1946

PR2.4603, 1946

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4603
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: lateral sclerosis of cord; numbness; back pain; drop-foot; and spastic paralysis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946

PR2.4605, 1945-1946

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4605
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report, notes, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 44 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; papilloedema; hemianopia; spastic hemiparesis; and brain-stem haemorrhage. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1945-1946

PR2.4653, 1946-1947

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4653
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, reports, charts, drawing and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: fatigue; extra-pyramidal motor disturbances; neck pain; spinal cord compression; spasticity; spine dislocation; and atlanto-axial luxation. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1946-1947

PR2.4680, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4680
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 64 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: leg pain; spasticity; monoparesis; cerebral injury; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946