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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:

PR2.12700, 1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12700
Scope and Contents

Note, report, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 58 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: spastic hemiparesis; arteriosclerotic retinopathy; brain damage; papilloedema; epileptic seizures; vascular accident; and aneurysm. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953

PR2.12770, 1953-1956

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12770
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report, chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; limb spasticity; and blindness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953-1956

PR2.12779, 1953-1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12779
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: mood changes; spasticity; and parasagittal post-frontal lesion. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953-1954

PR2.12806, 1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12806
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: aphasia; papilloedema; spastic hemiparesis; vomiting; limb weakness; hemianopia; and infiltrating glioma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953

PR2.12816, 1953-1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12816
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart, reports, note and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: facial weakness; limb spasticity; jaw jerk; dysarthria; brainstem lesion; vascular impairement; and incontinence. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953-1954

PR2.12820, 1953-1959

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12820
Scope and Contents

Note, report, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: low centre backache; spasticity of leg; myelitis; depression; and addiction to drugs. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953-1959

PR2.12830, 1953-1955

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12830
Scope and Contents

Note, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 43 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: dysphasia; spastic dysarthria; spasticity of limbs; hypertonic syndrome; pyramidal signs; demyelinating disease; syphilitic endarteritis; and syphilitic meningio-encephalitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953-1955

PR2.12842, 1953-1960

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12842
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, photgraphs, x-ray films, autopsy report, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 37 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: saccular aneurysm; arterial spasm; subarachnoid haemorrhage; headache; limb spasticity; myocardial infarction; athero-sclerosis; and bronchopneumonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1953-1960

PR2.12908, 1953-1956

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12908
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: limb spasticity; cervical disc protrusion; brachialgia; and neck pain. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953-1956

PR2.12940, 1953-1960

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12940
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; tetraspasticity; and backache. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953-1960