Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome (DDMS) is a syndrome associated with refractory epilepsy. DDMS is a rare syndrome characterized by seizures, facial asymmetry, contralateral hemiplegia and mental retardation. The characteristic radiologic features are cerebral hemiatrophy with homolateral hypertrophy of the skull and sinuses. The case was an 18 years old female with seizures, hemiparesis of the ri...

The influenza organism is one which can affect injuriously practically all the systems of the human body. When it affects the nervous system it can bring about a manifestation of one or other of practically all the symptoms of nervous system diseases. It can produce mental disturbances? paraplegias -? hemiplegias monoplegias. It can pick out certain strands in the cerebro-spinal axis and can in...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE It has been suggested that cyclic neuromuscular electrical stimulation (ES) may enhance motor recovery after stroke. We have investigated the effects of ES of the wrist extensors on impairment of wrist function and on upper-limb disability in patients being rehabilitated after acute stroke. METHODS We recruited 60 hemiparetic patients (mean age, 68 years) 2 to 4 weeks a...

The present paper gives an overview of the knowledge currently available on muscular dyscoordination underlying postural problems in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Such information is a prerequisite for developing successful therapeutic interventions in children with CP. Until now, three children with CP functioning at GMFCS (Gross Motor Function Classification System) level V have been doc...

THIS CASE REPORT EXPOSES A PHENOMENON WHICH, ALTHOUGH PROPOSED, HAS NOT BEEN DESCRIBED IN CLINICAL LITERATURE: transient postictal hemiplegia (Todd's paralysis) with concomitant electrocardiographic J-point deflection (Osborn waves). Although typically associated with hypothermia, a prominent J-wave on the electrocardiogram (ECG) results from a transmyocardial voltage gradient during ventricula...

Hypoglycemic hemiplegia mimics cerebrovascular disease. Two patients are reported who experienced multiple attacks of transient hemiplegia associated with hypoglycemia and who were initially diagnosed as having transient ischemic attacks. In both, angiography was normal and the attacks resolved with reduction of insulin dose. Recognition of hypoglycemia as the cause of transient hemiplegia is i...

Hemiplegia due to cerebral vascular lesion is frequently encountered in practice. Cerebral hemorrhage is usually fatal. Cases of cerebral thrombosis and embolism usually survive to live as hemiplegics for the rest of their life. Amongst them there is great variation as regards the degree of recovery of the power of paralysed limbs. There are the few fortunate patients who recover their power to...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Our aim was to study the efficacy of robotic therapy as an adjuvant to standard therapy during poststroke rehabilitation. METHODS Prospective, open, blinded end point, randomized, multicenter exploratory clinical trial in Japan of 60 individuals with mild to moderate hemiplegia 4 to 8 weeks post stroke randomized to receive standard therapy plus 40 minutes of either rob...