The percentage of all syphilitic patients who develop eitherlocomotor ataxia or paresis varies in different estimates from 1 to 6 per cent of the total number who acquire syphilis.
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.
A physician wrote me, taking me to task for listing among the cures reported in my tabulation a case of locomotor ataxia.
This picture, sad enough indeed in itself, was rendered still gloomier by {512} the misery and despair which popular fancy has associated with the conception of locomotor ataxia.
Sometimes it is the first {477} symptom of paresis or of locomotor ataxia.
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.
Defn: Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.
Most importance attaches to the fragility of the bones met with in general paralysis of the insane, locomotor ataxia, and other chronic diseases of the brain and spinal cord.
In syringomyelia pathological fracture is not so frequent as in locomotor ataxia; it is more likely to occur in the bones of the upper extremity, and especially in the humerus.
The same fact has been observed in a variety of other diseases, such as locomotor ataxia.
This with the exaggerated reflexes would exclude its use in locomotor ataxia.
Hart speaks of it as a remedy in locomotor ataxia, but the absence of sensory symptoms and the presence of exaggerated reflexes would seem to contra-indicate it in this disease.
Belden, of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1890, who suggested it as a possible remedy for paralysis agitans and locomotor ataxia.
Gastric crises have been most carefully studied as a symptom in the prodromic stage of locomotor ataxia.
The temporary results he obtained were so remarkable that I began soon after to employ it in locomotor ataxia, in which it sometimes proved of signal value, and in other forms of spinal and local disease.
Inactivity of the pupil (Argyll Robertson) under changes of light and darkness is common in locomotor ataxia.
Locomotor ataxia is in some cases attended by a degenerative alteration in one or more of the larger joints.
In locomotor ataxia, even from an early period, this tendon-reflex is abolished.
If so, how do you know you were treating a structural disease, such as cancer or locomotor ataxia?
Do you treat structural diseases, as cancer or locomotor ataxia?
Another nervous disease, corresponding in some of its features to paresis and indeed sometimes spoken of as a spinal form of paresis, is locomotor ataxia.
Tabes dorsalis, or locomotor ataxia, is caused in about 93 per centum of cases of this disease by syphilis, and it is an incurable and dreadful malady.
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