title: Disturbances of muscle tone in the paralysed upper extremity following hemiplegia.
abstract: After a minimum period of eleven weeks post cerebrovascular accident and resulting hemiplegia, one hundred adult patients were assessed for sensory-motor deficits affecting the function of the paralysed upper extremity. This paper presents only the assessment of muscle tone, the disturbances of tone and its inter-relationship with other clinical manifestations. Kendall rank order correlations were computed for this purpose. A highly significant relationship (P < .001) was observed between selective spasticity of proximal joints and distal joints and between wrist and finger clonus with selective spasticity of wrist, finger and shoulder muscles. The spasticity in wrist flexors related highly with the inability to perform functional tasks. Inability to perform muscle function was also related to limitation of joint motion.
authors.affiliation: University of Queensland.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Shah