Publication Date:
1982-04-09
Description:
Electrical subcutaneous nerve stimulation of radial, median, and saphenous nerves has been shown to produce prolonged analgesia. In a double blind study, such stimulation also suppressed clonus for 3 hours after stimulation ceased in subjects with spasticity. Since the effect is contralateral, each subject was his own control. Because stimulation of the nerve in the wrist suppressed ankle clonus, the mechanism mediating the effect must be centrifugal inhibition. These results suggest that subcutaneous nerve stimulation may also be a tool in the management of spasticity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Walker, J B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Apr 9;216(4542):203-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7063882" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Electric Stimulation
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Functional Laterality
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Humans
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Motor Neurons/physiopathology
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Muscle Spasticity/physiopathology/*therapy
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Peripheral Nerves/physiopathology
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Reflex/physiology
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Spinal Cord/physiopathology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
