DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Leg weakness
Functional weakness
Functional weakness is weakness of an arm or leg due to the nervous system not working properly. It is not caused by damage or disease of the nervous system. Patients with functional weakness experience symptoms of limb weakness which can be disabling and frightening such as problems walking or a ‘heaviness’ down one side, dropping things or a feeling that a limb just doesn’t feel normal or ‘part of them’. Functional weakness may also be described as 'dissociative motor disorder' and less helpfully as "conversion disorder. " To the patient and the doctor it often looks as if there has been a stroke or have symptoms of multiple sclerosis...
Leg weakness - List of case studies
- 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 ... left leg, trapped muscles in the thighs of both legs, leg weakness, walking difficulty, significant instability while walking, numbness ...
- Left cervicobrachialgia following cervical discectomy
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disclosed C6-C7 radiculopathy on the left, minimal weakness of biceps and triceps muscles and reduced biceps reflex. EMG and ... to date a constant and persistent burning pain in the left leg? In addition to the lumbar MRI, which was negative, is there any other ...
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome / Acute Myeloradiculoneuritis
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and IV steroids was followed by improvement in the right leg weakness. The patient was later treated with IVIG. He reported improvement ...
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
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as having multiple sclerosis (MS) after episodes of leg and shoulder weakness and parasthesis. Lately he experiences dizziness. His MRI showed ...
- List of Symptoms
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region) Burning pain Burning pain (left leg) Burning sensation at miction Burning sensation at the sides of ... symptoms (left tibia and hip) Intense sense of weakness (both legs) Intensive meteorism Intermittent claudication ...
- 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/ acute ...
- 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 ... left leg, trapped muscles in the thighs of both legs, leg weakness, walking difficulty, significant instability while walking, numbness ...