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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:

PR2.11519, 1952

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11519
Scope and Contents

Chart, report, notes and correspondence relating to male fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; spastic hemiparesis; dysarthria; hemiplegia; vascular lesion; vascular cerebral accident; and cerebral arteriosclerosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11552, 1952-1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11552
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, report, charts and correspondence relating to female fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged30at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; confusion; unconsciousness; ataxia; nystagmus; brain damage; spasticity of arm; and personality changes. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1954

PR2.11684, 1952-1953

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11684
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: encephalitis; semi-comatose; virus infection; epileptic seizures; papilloedema; hemiparesis; neck stiffness; and spasticity. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1953

PR2.11698, 1952-1960

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11698
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, x-ray film, photographs, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cervical spondylosis; spastic paraparesis; cervical kyphosis; limb spasticity; compression of spinal cord. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1960

PR2.11813, 1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11813
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 59 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hemiparesis with slight spasticity; thrombosis; and Buerger's disease. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953

PR2.11832, 1952-1953

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11832
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, drawing, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 49 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: myelitis; Brown-Sequard syndrome; vascular accident; backache; limb weakness; retention of urine; and spastic limb. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1953

PR2.11913, 1952-1953

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11913
Scope and Contents

Notes and correpondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 47 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: pseudo-bulbar palsy; paresis of facial muscles; spastic paresis of limbs; essential hypertension; spasm in cerebral arteries; and cerebral thrombosis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1953

PR2.11914, 1953

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11914
Scope and Contents

Notes, report, chart and correpondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 36 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: low backache; sciatica; headache; muscular wasting in leg; and lubosacral spondylolisthesis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953

PR2.11921, 1953

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11921
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: Jacksonian attacks in arm; progressive loss of power in right limb; spastic arm; bronchial carcinoma; and metastasis involving the pyramidal tract. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953

PR2.12112, 1953

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12112
Scope and Contents

correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: neck pain; limb spasticity; extra-pyramidal disorder; and akinetic form of Parkinsonism. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953