We assessed peripheral nerve function during and after lower-limb lengthening by callotasis in 14 patients with short stature, using motor conduction studies. Four patients with short stature of varying aetiology showed unilateral and one showed bilateral weakness of foot dorsiflexion. Both clinical and electrophysiological abnormalities consistent with involvement of the peroneal nerve were ob...

PURPOSE The Overactive Bladder Innovative Therapy Trial during phase 1 was a randomized trial demonstrating comparable effectiveness of percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation and extended-release tolterodine during 12 weeks of therapy for frequency, nocturia, urgency, voided volume and urge incontinence episodes. In this second phase of the Overactive Bladder Innovative Therapy Trial we assessed...

Using paired pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) paradigms, we studied cortical excitability in a patient with spinal cord lesion. During posterior tibial nerve stimulation, the contextual flexion of hand fingers contralateral to the stimulated lower limb had suggested a change in motor cortex excitability. Results showed a decrease in the activity of motor cortex inhibitory circuits....

In this report we shall review the finding that selective stimulation of tibial nerve large afferents and selective stimulation of lumbar sacral afferents to the spinal cord can elicit modification of motor output only by changing of the rate of the train of stimuli without changing the stimulus strength or site of stimulation. After a brief description of the applied methods in reported studie...

: The Overactive Bladder (OAB) is a common disorder that imposes psychological and economic burden reduces the quality of life. Oral medications have some problems in frontline treatment. Transcutaneous posterior Tibial Nerve Stimulation (TTNS) available with minimum invasion at lower cost. Urodynamic tests are invasive will be more difficult for children to perform than adults. present study u...

Nerve injury is a rare complication of total hip replacement which may be related to the exposure used for the operation. The posterior approach is traditionally associated with injury to the sciatic nerve. We have compared the incidence of nerve injury after primary total hip replacement (THR) using either a posterior or a direct lateral approach. We studied 42 consecutive patients undergoing ...