Paralysis and other diseases of the nervous system in childhood and early life.

  • Taylor, James.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Paralysis and other diseases of the nervous system in childhood and early life. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    alone, while spasticity appears in the leg alone. Such spon- taneous movements are of serious prognostic importance, for they tend to become progressively more apparent and to render the effectual use of the limb impossible. Under the name of choreiform movements are included movements which present almost every gradation between the shock-like movements of myoclonus, the movements seen in Sydenham's chorea, and the slow tentacle-like Fig. 3.—To illustrate position of upper limb in athetosis, a photograph by Dr. James Collier. From movements of athetosis. The short shock-like movements generally affect the proximal joints of a limb, while choreiform and athetotic movements are seen chiefly in the periphery of the limb. (2) Athetosis occurs more frequently than does choreiform involuntary movement; sometimes the two occur in the same case, athetosis presenting in the leg, while choreiform movements are seen in the arm. Unlike the choreiform movements, athetosis often shows itself in the periphery of a limb which is much paralysed and very rigid. Such