Biomedical subjects

G M Pool

Publications and source records attributed to G M Pool.

14 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1989

Thoughts about spinal actions and cerebral reflections in movement.

Some thoughts about the co-ordination in movement are given and how our communication organ may be able to adapt to the disaster of an interruption in the information chain.

Brain↗

PubMed1985

Readiness and the International Medical Society of Paraplegia: the Sir Ludwig Guttmann lecture 1984.

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PubMed1984

Pathological conditions obscured by paraplegia.

Underlying malignant conditions may be obscured in paraplegic patients and, similarly, cord damage may conceal deformity. Three patients illustrating this complication are described.

Female↗

PubMed1981

Non-traumatic acquired tetraplegia: case report.

A patient who gradually developed tetraplegia caused by an intra-medullary tumour is described. Over a period of 13 years the patient and her family coped very well with the handicap. After neurosurgical intervention no neurological recovery was achieved, but her head movements were restored. This made mobility with an electrical chin-steered wheelchair possible. Some of the difference between an acute and a gradually acquired tetraplegia are discussed.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1980

The flexion reflex as a diagnostic tool.

Illustrated by two different cases the importance of the flexion reflex as a diagnostic tool is discussed. It is emphasised that the flexion reflex has more qualities than withdrawal in defence only. In the patient with a long-standing paraplegia a disturbance of the balance between flexion reflex and stretch reflex is of clinical importance.

Adult↗

PubMed1978

Tropical paraplegia: a case of transverse myelitis, probably caused by schistosomiasis mansoni.

In tropical regions transverse myelitis may be caused by involvement with schistosoma or the eggs of this organism. Although 200 million people seem to be infected with this disease, involvement of the spinal cord is rare. A case of a 15-year-old boy is described and some literature reviewed.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1977