DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Limb 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...
Limb weakness - List of case studies
- Motor Neuron Disease
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at that time of the neurological examination there was no limb muscle atrophy or weakness and that tone and reflexes were within normal limits in all four ...
- Demyelinizing Disease
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effects. Her movement difficulties, due to the left lower limb rigidity, are increasing progressively. ... course ( relapses superimposed on progression of leg weakness) ? Was the right hand weakness in the summer of 2007 a relapse/ acute ...
- Motor Neuron Disease – additional opinion
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particularly helpful for evaluation of respiratory muscle weakness. Assuming that all the blood work that was recommended was ... difficulties , speaking difficulties , spasticity, limb weakness , respiratory muscle weakness. Related Conditions ...
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
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44-year-old female that presents with Paresthesias and weakness in the right arm and hand, and left trigeminal neuralgia. The patient ... (Electromyography) of some muscles of the right superior limb was performed giving indication of the presence of a neurogenic ...
- Cervical Disk Hernia_1
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segment myelopathy and spinal stenosis. In light of the weakness of the muscles in the patient's right hand, the expert recommendes a ... – weakened R interossei 4/5, the rest of the upper limb muscles have normal strength No spasticity in the upper limb, weak ...
- List of Symptoms
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Hypoesthesia (of the knee) Hyposthenia (left lower limb and left upper limb) Hypotension Hypotonia (left lower limb) ... symptoms (left tibia and hip) Intense sense of weakness (both legs) Intensive meteorism Intermittent claudication ...
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome / Acute Myeloradiculoneuritis
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pick within less than a day. On examination the left lower limb was plegic and the right lower limb was partially weak. EMG was ... IV steroids was followed by improvement in the right leg weakness. The patient was later treated with IVIG. He reported improvement ...
- 1st and 2nd Motor Neuron Disease of ALS-type
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The atrophy and fasciculations in the tongue and weakness of the soft palate, some difficulty with swallowing, clearly show that the brainstem motor nuclei are affected in addition to the limb muscles . The MRIs of the brain and spine show changes in the upper ...