DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Leg spasticity
Rhizotomy
A rhizotomy is a term chiefly referring to a neurosurgical procedure that selectively severs problematic nerve roots in the spinal cord, most often to relieve the symptoms of neuromuscular conditions such as spastic diplegia and other forms of spastic cerebral palsy. The selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) for spastic cerebral palsy has been the main use of rhizotomy for neurosurgeons specialising in spastic CP since the 1980s; in this surgery, the spasticity-causing nerves are isolated and then targeted and destroyed. The sensory nerve roots, where spasticity is located, are first separated from the motor ones, and the nerve fibres to be cut are then identified via electromyographic stimulation...
Leg spasticity - List of case studies
- Demyelinizing Disease
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course ( relapses superimposed on progression of leg weakness) ? Was the right hand weakness in the summer of 2007 a relapse/ ... Baclofen or Tizanidine may alleviate the leg spasticity . A low dose of 5 mg of Bacolfen twice daily should be started , ...
- Spinal pathology
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cramping and numbness in his thigh muscles, radiating left leg pain to his toes, as well as unsteady gait. He experiences numbness in his ... sign negative, no pathological neurological findings [No spasticity, clonus, etc] Pulses were felt Large joints – no ...
- Spinal pathology – additional opinion
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cramping and numbness in his thigh muscles, radiating left leg pain to his toes, as well as unsteady gait. He experiences numbness in his ... sign negative, no pathological neurological findings [No spasticity, clonus, etc] Pulses were felt Large joints – no ...
- List of Symptoms
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region) Burning pain Burning pain (left leg) Burning sensation at miction Burning sensation at the sides of ... (over and under the eye) Edema Edema (right leg) Edematous component Electric shock sensation Emesis ... speech Sore throat Spastic dysarthria Spasticity Speaking difficulties Speech deficits Speech ...