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PubMed2002

Effect of cold air therapy in relieving spasticity: applied to spinalized rabbits.

STUDY DESIGN: Before-After trial measured prior to cold air therapy, immediately following, after 30 and 60 min. OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of cold air therapy in relieving spasticity, the optimal intramuscular temperature, and the duration of spasticity relief attained by cold air therapy. SETTING: Clinical research laboratory, Seoul, Korea. SUBJECT: Forty-six spastic paraplegic rabbits with spinal cord injury. METHODS: Spastic paraplegia was induced by transection of spinal cord in 46 rabbits. Cold air was applied to triceps surae muscles for 30 min at three different intramuscular temperatures (25, 30 and 32.5 degrees C). Clinical parameters of spasticity (muscle tone, Babinski's sign, muscle stretch reflex and ankle clonus) and electrophysiologic parameters (F/M ratio and H/M ratio) were measured immediately following, after 30 and 60 min. RESULTS: In the 32.5 degrees C group, relief in spasticity lasted less than 30 min. In the 30 and 25 degrees C groups, the decrease in spasticity lasted for at least 30 min clinically. The spasticity relief was observed only immediately following treatment when measured electrophysiologically. However, six out of 16 cases (37.5%) in the 25 degrees C group showed complete motor conduction block. CONCLUSION: To relieve spasticity with cold air therapy, the intramuscular temperature should be maintained at 30 degrees C. The duration of spasticity relief lasted from between 30-60 min after cold air therapy. We certify that all applicable institutional and governmental regulations concerning the ethical use of animals were followed during the course of this research.

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[Effect of immersion in water on the rudimentary reflexes of infants in the 1st months of life].

Seizing and myotatic reflexes differ in their intensities in the right and left hands already from the first month of life in babies. It was shown that disappearing seizing and myotatic reflexes together with Moro's and Babinsky's reflexes in 3 1/2-4 months old babies can be elicited again during bathing. In the course of adaptation of babies to the water these reflexes disappear.

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PubMed1992

The relation between motor evoked potential and clinical motor status in stroke patients.

Forty-one stroke patients and 41 normal controls of matched age, sex and body height were studied by magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex and lower cervical area. The cortical and cervical motor evoked potentials (MEPs) were detected from the abductor pollicis brevis muscle. The amplitudes and latencies of cortical MEPs, central conduction time (CCT), and interside difference of bilateral CCT (DCCT) in stroke patients showed significant difference in comparison with normal controls. The degree of motor weakness was statistically correlated with the severity of cortical MEP findings, but not with the deep tendon reflex and Babinski sign. The abnormal rate of cortical MEP was higher in patients with hemorrhage than in those with infarction. Six out of 17 patients with hemorrhage had prolonged CCT or DCCT, but only 3 out of 24 patients with infarction had the same findings. The cortical MEP findings in putaminal hemorrhage were more severe than in thalamic hemorrhage. In instances of infarction involving total middle cerebral artery territory (cortical and subcortical areas), the cortical MEP was absent in all cases (4/4). It was concluded that cortical MEP findings in stroke patients examined by magnetic stimulation showed good correlation both with the lesion radiologically and the motor deficit clinically. This is an acceptable method for quantitative evaluation of motor system function in stroke.

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PubMed2005

[Babinski and Chaddock signs without apparent pyramidal disfunction].

PURPOSE: The main objective of this study was to verify, in one hundred in-patients from the Serviço de Clínica Médica do Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro who did not have a history of clinical symptoms of pyramidal disfunction, the presence of the Babinski and Chaddock signs. As a secondary objective, we looked for a prevalence of one of the signs over the other, and the influence of the head position regarding the obtained responses. METHOD: The patients were examined while supine with their heads in three different positions. RESULTS: Out of the one hundred patients, ten of them (10%) showed hallux extension uni or bilateral. The Babinski sign was positive 18 times (40%), and the Chaddock sign was positive 27 times (60%). CONCLUSION: The Chaddock sign occurred more frequently than the Babinski sign, the abnormal reflex occurred twice as much on the left foot than the right, and apparently there was no interference regarding the head position in relation to the obtained results.

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