[Changes in the H-reflex of children with cerebral spastic hemiparesis].
A study of the H-reflexes in children with cerebral spastic hemipareses and in the control group of normal children depicted a decrease of the maximum amplitudes of H-reflexes and a drop in the relation Hmax:Mmax, a shortening of the latent period and a slower development of inhibition in sick children; in comparison with normals. Such changes are seen not only on the affected side in the patients, but on the unaffected (although expressed to a less degree). Such states do not permit to consider the nonaffected side as intact. The authors believe that the studied groups of patients are characterized by a disturbed process of intraspinal inhibition.
D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006181:H-Reflex; D006801:Humans; D011930:Reaction Time; D012021:Reflex, Abnormal / Q000209:etiology*; D012023:Reflex, Monosynaptic
Izmeneniia H-refleksa u deteĭ s tserebral'nymi spasticheskimi gemiparezami