[Method of measuring spasticity. Studies of 12 cases of spastic patients treated with chronic epidural implanted electrodes].
The Authors have applied the method for determination of the H reflex, in order to measure the spasticity in a group of patients operated with chronic implantation of epidural electrodes. After a brief discussion about a clinical and neurophysiological problems of the spasticity, they refers the methodologie and results obtained by determination of H/M ratio and H1/H2 curve with double stimulus. They conclude that this method is rather uncertain and useful only at a approximative clinical level.
D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D004824:Epidural Space; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D009128:Muscle Spasticity / Q000628:therapy*; D010243:Paralysis / Q000628:therapy*; D013116:Spinal Cord
Metodo di misura della spasticità. Indagine su 12 casi di pazienti spastici, trattati con impianto epidurale cronico di elettrodi.