[Method of measuring spasticity. Studies of 12 cases of spastic patients treated with chronic epidural implanted electrodes]

Riv Neurol. 1984 Mar-Apr;54(2):87-93.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Electric Stimulation Therapy*
  • Electrodes, Implanted
  • Epidural Space
  • Hemiplegia / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Muscle Spasticity / therapy*
  • Paralysis / therapy*
  • Spinal Cord*