The loss of the sense of touch in the skin is not, however, the sole or even chief reason that the ataxic man cannot walk.
Thus the ataxic may be able to walk with his eyes open, when he cannot even balance himself erect with his eyes shut.
The partially ataxic man can walk with his eyes open, although he does not feel the floor, because sight replaces touch.
When a completely ataxic man puts his feet upon the pavement he feels nothing.
And what is it going to make of me, an ataxic or a madman?
Was it not already a miracle to make the ataxic walk, to bring consumptives back to life, as it were; even to give hours of lucidity to the insane?
At this period the gesture-language and modulation of voice of the child are generally easy to understand, as in case of pure ataxic aphasia (the verbal asemia or asymbolia of Finkelnburg) are the looks and gestures of aphasic adults.
If the center is completely and exclusively disturbed, then it is a case of pure ataxic aphasia.
Although they usually develop in the ataxic stage, one or more years after the initial spinal symptoms, they may appear before there is any evidence of tabes.
With these methods, needing not more than twenty minutes three times a day, the ataxic symptoms sometimes rapidly diminish.
In this period the ataxicsymptoms are most prominent; the gait has become so unsteady that the patient needs canes to walk at all and must constantly watch his feet.
Without multiplying case histories, it may be said that ataxic paraplegia (a combination of lateral and posterior sclerosis) may be treated in much the same manner.
The patient is directed to stand at "Attention," head up and chest out, not looking at his feet, as the ataxic always wishes to do.
Footnote 30: It is worth mentioning that where ataxic patients have to use canes, a crutch-cane with a base some six or eight inches long and well shod with roughened rubber is far more useful and safer than the ordinary stick.
The first or pre-ataxic stage is, to the great detriment of patients, too seldom recognized.
A man became a hospital rounder to all points of the compass in France during a period of twenty months, with such diagnoses as myelopathic disorder, complex spinal trouble, ataxic phenomena.
On the basis of these phenomena apparently, this camptocormic patient had been saddled with the diagnosis of myelopathic and ataxic disorder for a period of 16 months.
The lieutenant said that when he saw people “dance” he did have a tendency to imitate them; and when he was cured of that, he did not want to go to Lamalou because he would see the ataxic patients there and might fall back into his “dancing.
The result of a block in the descending paths is shown in spastic, clonic, or ataxic phenomena of, e.
There may also be ataxic symptoms, paretic weakness of bowel and bladder, trembling and spasms.
All cases, however, if they live long enough, pass into the second ataxic stage.
Nearly every ataxic patient who is not directly and almost constantly under the care of a physician, is a sufferer from two conditions that are so constantly present that they are sometimes thought to be consequences of the primary affection.
Certainly locomotor ataxic patients would seem the least likely to be benefited by training in movement and yet this movement therapy for tabes has had some wonderful results.
As is well known, by reteaching the movements necessary for walking, ataxic patients regain control of the movements of their limbs to a marked extent.
The ataxic patient needs consolation, and this can be given without in any way deceiving him.
In the ataxo-adynamic form the symptoms of the ataxic and those of the adynamic form are found united.
To this latter class belong the inflammatory typhus, the nervous or ataxic typhus, the adynamic typhus, and the ataxo-adynamic typhus of Murchison.
A high temperature, therefore, in itself involves danger, and if it occur in an ataxic disease like scarlet fever, and be protracted, it greatly diminishes the chances of a favorable issue.
The ataxic or nervous form, which is characterized by the predominance of delirium, subsultus tendinum, and other nervous symptoms.
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