[Nature of the reflex excitation of the spinal motor neurons in children with isiopathic scoliosis].
In 32 girls from 12-14 years with expressed idiopathic scoliosis (III-IV stage) the authors studied H-reflexes, evoked from the soleus muscles. In 16 patients they established an expressed asymmetry in the expressivity of H-reflexes from the right and left sides. This asymmetry was found in a localization of the primary arch of spinal distortion in the sacral part. In a localization of the primary arch in the thoracal part, the asymmetry in the reflectory excitation of sacral motoneurons is not expressed. It is being assumed that changes in the motoneuron apparatus of the spinal cord are the reason of the appearance of a scoliotic deformation of the spine.
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006181:H-Reflex; D006801:Humans; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009431:Neural Conduction; D009433:Neural Inhibition; D012023:Reflex, Monosynaptic; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013127:Spinal Nerves / Q000503:physiopathology*
Kharakter reflektornoĭ vozbudimosti spinal'nykh motoneĭronov u deteĭ s idiopathicheskim skoliozom.