Therapeutic electricity and practical muscle testing.

  • Hedley W.S.
Date:
1899
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    the treatment of old-standing paralyses of central origin. He has found it a most useful adjunct to other electrical methods in the treatment of that ensemble of symptoms known as neurasthenia, and in cases of anaesthesia it has been found of the greatest service. Case.—B—, set. 30. Paralysis of two months' standing, right fore- arm extensors and supinators involved, wrist drop, R.D. sensation impaired, woolly feel and numbness, especially over the distribu- tion of the radial. One or two painful points in the course of the posterior interosseous. History and symptoms show it to be a case of pressure paralysis (muscular spiral). Was attacked shortly after having lain in an awkward position during several hours when intoxi- cated. Has taken medicine for two months. Electrical treatment now entered upon by weak currents {-fg), anode stabile on each painful point, five to ten minutes, cathode large indifferent electrode. After two or three weeks no improvement; at the end of one month (twelve sittings)^slight improveuient perceptible. Powerful peripheral stimu- lation was then resorted to, at first by single pole treatment, that is to say, the patient, being insulated and holding one pole of a large coil, had sparks taken from the arm. This was alternated with the electrised douche, and improvement followed with surprising rapidity, the cure being complete in eight weeks (twenty-five sittings) from the commencement of electrical treatment. Fig, 98.—Diagram showing the electrical conditions that exist in a bath when an earth connection is made (see p. 259).