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Spon- taneous flexor spasms may therefore be considered labile or heightened flexor reflexes cheap 10mg lotrisone with visa, the stimuli for Inhibition of the soleus H reflex which are not immediately apparent. They occur characteristically following more rostral spinal cord Inhibition of extensors by noxious stimuli to the lesions. Inhibition of the soleus H reflex by Electrical stimulation of the medial plantar nerve noxious stimulation to toe 5 has been compared Such stimulation produces a flexor reflex in the tib- in normal subjects and hemiplegic patients with ialis anterior, and has been used in the electrophys- lesions of the corticospinal tract at various levels iological investigations in spastic patients (Meinck of the neuraxis (Pierrot-Deseilligny, Bussel & Morin, et al. The normal inhibition peaks at 50–70 ms in by the conditioning volley are complex, because normal subjects (Fig. The inhibition disappeared in patients from plantar muscles, and these muscle afferents with lesions of the paracentral lobule, was markedly havestrongprojectionstotibialisanteriormotoneu- decreased in patients with hemispheric lesions, and rones (cf. However, these investigations are moderately decreased in patients with brainstem of interest because they involve a large number of lesions. With weak stimuli, the early synchro- nised response observed in normal subjects was Withdrawal reflexes in the upper limb notseen;insteadlong-latencydesynchronisedactiv- ity occurred. With stronger stimuli, the desynchro- In stroke patients, Cambier, Dehen & Bathien (1974) nised activity increased in amplitude and duration, described changes in the nociceptive reflex elicited and its latency shortened. These flexor reflexes dif- by stimulation of the ulnar nerve at the wrist, fered from normal responses: (i) the inhibitory reflex resembling those described in the lower limb: a components were replaced by excitation, (ii) the lower threshold for the reflex which appeared in overall reflex discharge was greater, (iii) the reflex the biceps, and spread of the response to involve responses became grossly desynchronised, and (iv) flexors of other limb segments. A recent investiga- phasic reflex activity was replaced by tonic activ- tion by Dewald et al. This result was confirmed further with lesions of the corticospinal tract (Choa & in an investigation showing that the RII reflex is Stephens, 1981;Rowlandson & Stephens, 1985b). The lack of habituation reflects the change that does not occur in normal subjects (Zehr, difficulty observed in these patients in inhibiting a Fujita & Stein, 1998). In normal subjects, sustained vibra- tion of the skin of the fingers at 100 Hz can pro- Upper limb duce a reflex contraction of the long finger flexor Cutaneomuscular responses in the first dorsal muscles, a response that nerve block experiments interosseous to stimulation of the digital nerves of indicated due to activation of rapidly conducting the index finger undergo changes previously dis- cutaneous afferents (Eklund, Hagbarth & Torebjork,¨ cussed in patients with upper motoneurone lesions: 1978). Accordingly, the appearance of a grasp the late E2 excitation may be abolished and, when reflex in patients represents pathological accen- present, is attenuated and delayed, the I1 inhibitory tuation of an intrinsically normal reflex response, response is also attenuated, and the spinally medi- not the development of a completely different ated E1 excitation is generally increased (Jenner & reflex.

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