In patients who cannot walk, ataxia may be tested by ordering repeated pronation and supination of the forearm.
The ataxia of the legs was demonstrable in the position of dorsal decubitus, and there was also a slight ataxia of the arms.
On the seventh day stupor and ataxia had disappeared.
The hypertonia and ataxiaebbed away during the following three months.
Four weeks in the convalescent home found the following: The attending physician now suggested locomotor ataxia as the correct diagnosis!
Locomotor ataxiais in some cases attended by a degenerative alteration in one or more of the larger joints.
While certain cases, or even epidemics, of malarial fevers are attended by remarkable adynamia, often manifesting itself from the very incipiency of attacks, it differs widely from that utter nervous ataxia which characterizes typhoid fever.
Occurring before the symptomataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.
Defn: Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.
Early locomotor ataxia can often be benefited or kept from getting any worse by the proper treatment.
Both locomotor ataxia and paresis may develop in the same person, producing a combined form known as taboparesis.
Locomotor ataxia begins to affect the lower part of the spinal cord first, so that the earliest symptoms often come from the legs and from the bladder and rectum, whose nerves are injured.
The importance of locomotor ataxiaand paresis in persons who carry heavy responsibilities is very great.
The percentage of all syphilitic patients who develop either locomotor ataxia or paresis varies in different estimates from 1 to 6 per cent of the total number who acquire syphilis.
Locomotor ataxia and general paralysis of the insane (or softening of the brain) are the best known to the laity, though only two of many ways in which syphilis can attack the nervous system.
In such a case the secondary stage of the disease may pass with half a dozen red spots on the body and no constitutional symptoms, and the patient go to pieces a few years later with locomotor ataxia or general paralysis of the insane.
By the finding of this same germ in the nervous system in locomotorataxia and general paralysis of the insane, the last lingering doubt of their syphilitic character was dispelled.
The gait in ataxia is staggering--resembling somewhat the inco-ordination of a man under the influence of alcohol, and there is an exaggerated lifting of the feet and legs with each step.
Locomotor ataxia may occasionally be brought on by long-continued exposures to wet and cold, injuries to the spinal column, and by excesses of various kinds.
I heard during my investigation of cases of yellow fever, phthisis, cancer, and locomotor ataxia which had been "healed in Christian Science.
I went to his house, and spent the greater part of an evening trying to prevail upon these two people to show me or to introduce me to these subjects of locomotor ataxia and cancer of the tongue.
Only the vivid picture of a crisis in locomotor ataxia or the agony of a true migraine, can impress the observer with the full value of this pain reliever.
The phenomena of ataxia are of great importance as corroborating the experimental proofs spoken of a few pages back, which show that walking is automatic and not simply performed by a conscious power of the will.
Even if the ataxia be not complete and some sense of feeling remain, the gait becomes so uncertain that progression is impossible.
There is a disease of the spinal cord known as locomotorataxia which destroys the sense of touch in the legs.
He had no ataxia or loss of sensibility in the upper half of the body.
In patients in the first stage of ataxia the most striking result of incoördination is the impairment of station.
The usefulness of electricity in ataxia has been denied by some authors, while others praise it indiscriminately.
While I have used it with good effect in other conditions, it is in ataxia that I have found it of most value.
I have found in the few cases of ataxia in women that I have seen that they benefited much more quickly by these balance instructions than did men, though their other symptoms were in no way different.
But two recent distinct cases are in my list, and one of these, the one here reported, seems rather more like an ataxiawith some anomalous symptoms.
The name of Maxime arrested his attention, and he wrote: "Died of ataxia in 1873," in the certainty that his nephew would not live through the year.
Ataxia had declared itself; he was able to walk now only leaning on his servant's arm.
He had gone to give a hypodermic injection to Lafouasse, the tavern keeper, whose ataxia had within a short time made such rapid progress that he regarded him as doomed.
Hence it is that paresis and locomotor ataxia are comparatively quite common among actors, brokers, and financiers.
At times locomotor ataxia begins with very severe pain seizures, known as crises.
Does not get on feet when turned on side; ataxia well marked.
Even in our own times, entirely on empiric grounds, it was used for such severe organic nervous diseases as locomotorataxia and sometimes to such an extent as to produce argyria.
The pain of a gastric neurosis may, indeed, so simulate the gastric crises of locomotor ataxia as to make what is only a case of hysteria seem beyond doubt one of locomotor ataxic.
There can, of course, be no doubt that the crises of locomotor ataxia represents extremely poignant attacks of pain.
A little persuasion, however, of the necessity for making the best of a bad job will usually arouse even a locomotor ataxia patient in the early stages of his disease to the necessity for eating a reasonable amount.
In certain nervous organizations it is quite impossible to overcome the tendency to this ataxia or inco-ordination of voluntary movements.
Locomotor ataxia was the least she might expect from her description of her feelings.
Mitchell's patients, other manifestations of ataxia occurred as the result of the consciousness that people were watching the patient.
Nitrate of silver was one of these in the old days and many locomotor ataxia patients acquired an argyria as a consequence of the amount of silver absorbed and deposited in the skin.
As a consequence of the diffusion of this knowledge men who have suffered from syphilis sometimes become supremely fatalistic as regards the development of locomotor ataxia or paresis in their cases.
There has never been a case of true locomotor ataxia cured by any means whatever, in the history of man, until this Kansas surgeon, Dr.
Brinkley in his cures of Locomoter Ataxiaby the goat-gland operation.
Two weeks before his arrival a man suffering from locomotor ataxia had been carried in, unable to help himself at all.
The sufferer from locomotor ataxia may learn to walk again through mental education without any restitution of his spinal cord.
I'll swear he doesn't know the difference between locomotorataxia and a hypodermic syringe, but he is known, so they flock into his surgery in a manner which is simply repulsive.
I fear that Mr. Burnham doesn't make much money out of grateful correspondents who were cured of locomotor ataxiaby his prescription, because locomotor ataxia is absolutely and hopelessly incurable.
