An electric examination in the region of the external popliteal branch of the sciatic nerve showed that there was no electrical disorder either faradic or voltaic.
There were painful points on pressure on the lower part of the os sacrum and coccyx and over the right sciatic and tibial nerves.
Re leg contractures, Bérard got successful results by continuous extension combined with injections of 1 per cent novocain into the sciatic nerve trunk and the contractured muscles.
Involvement of the external and internal popliteal nerves in lesions of the sciatic nerve.
November 13, the sciatic nerve was surgically freed from a scar and laid in the midst of the femoral biceps.
The foot did not fall and the leg did not elongate, as it might have in a case of paralysis of the sciatic nerve.
The inguinal region was involved and the painful zone reached the sciatic notch and the upper part of the posterior surface of the thigh.
The scar of the healed bullet-wound lay over the trunk of the left sciatic nerve.
In case of radial or sciatic paralysis, apparatus permitting the extremities to rest without over-action of the muscles antagonistic to the paralyzed ones may well be applied.
Pains were spontaneously felt in the lumbar plexus and sciatic nerve regions, not passing, however, beyond the thighs.
Negligible disorders of electrical excitability in the territory of the right sciatic nerve.
He was grateful to Algae in that matter of the sciatic nerve, but it was not his place as a seigneur to make morning calls on a dependant.
Old de Vaux, grateful ever to the marquis and his affinity for their treatment of his sciatic nerve, came riding over with crumpled gazettes in his pocket, his eyes goggling in his head.
These were in the substance of the great sciatic nerve, and were subsequently removed by Sir Thomas Smith.
The wound was produced by a ricochet bullet, and beyond the perforation of the sciatic nerve the femur was fractured obliquely (see plate XVI.
The bullet had passed out of the pelvis by the great sciatic notch.
It was found embedded in firm cicatricial tissue close to the sciatic notch; this compressed the nerve to such a degree that a waist was apparent upon it.
The size of the great sciatic nerve renders complete laceration by a bullet of small calibre a matter almost of impossibility; hence complete division may almost be left out of consideration in the case of this nerve.
The most striking observation with regard to the injuries of the great sciatic nerve was the comparatively frequent escape of the popliteal element and the severe lesion of the peroneal.
Injuries to the great sciaticnerve outside the pelvis, or to one of its constituent elements, on the other hand, formed one of the most familiar of the nerve lesions.
These symptoms persisted, and on his return to England an exploration was made by Sir Thomas Smith, and the two fragments of mantle seen in the skiagram were removed from the substance of the sciatic nerve.
Here, again, we are confronted with the fact that the peroneal element of the great sciatic nerve is the more prone to idiopathic inflammations or toxic influences, and hence we can only assume it to possess a special vulnerability.
During the succeeding week some sciatic hyperæsthesia developed, but on the twenty-eighth day the patient developed secondary peritonitis from other causes and died on the thirty-first.
Hyperæsthesia in area of distribution of small saphenous and small sciatic nerves, which rapidly improved.
The small sciatic was occasionally injured in its course in the buttock, and the small saphenous in the leg.
If untreated, the morbid process may implicate the sheath of the sciatic nerve and cause genuine sciatic neuralgia (Llewellyn and Jones).
Plexiform Neuroma of small Sciatic Nerve, from a girl æt.
Injuries to the great sciatic nerve are rare except in war.
The special symptoms to which it gives rise are pain down the limb from pressure on the sciatic nerve, and interference with the movements at the hip.
Stump Neuromas ofSciatic Nerve, excised forty years after the original amputation by Mr. A.
It is not referred to the line of the sciatic nerve, nor is there tenderness on pressing over the nerve, or sensations of tingling or numbness in the leg or foot.
The malignant neuroma is met with chiefly in the sciatic and other large nerves of the limbs.
The Sciatic Nerves are formed by three pairs of Nerves, sent out below the seventh, eighth and ninth Vertebræ, and by one pair from the Os Sacrum.
When, half an hour thereafter, the Sciatic Nerves were pinched, a light tremor only was excited in the Muscles of the Leg; and Animal Electricity produced but feeble twitchings of the Muscles.
I PUT a very thick plate of Zinc into a vessel with water, and placed, near to it, in the water, the under part of the Spine and the hind Legs of a Frog, after cutting all the parts at the Pelvis except the Sciatic Nerves.
AFTER preparing the Frog and placing the Metals as in last Experiment, if a piece of thin dry Paper, pierced with a number of small holes, be interposed between the gold Probe and the Sciatic Nerves, the Legs will not be convulsed.
THIS Experiment succeeds after denuding the Sciatic Nerves for the length of an inch, and wiping them dry; and it continues to succeed for an hour or more, and till the Nerves are evidently discoloured and shrunk in their size.
THE event is the same, when the upper ends of the Sciatic Nerves are cut away from the Spine, and laid on the Zinc.
If the abdomen of a frog be filled with it, a piece of zinc passed through it, so as to touch the sciatic nerves, excites contractions.
In the other, one of the sciatic nerves had been divided between three weeks and a month.
Having tied the crural artery on one side, and divided the sciaticnerve on the other, on three full grown male frogs, I strangled them all on the sixth day following.
But the instant their sciatic nerves are divided, the contractions produced are as free and vigorous, as if the legs had been completely separated from the body.
Having laid equally bare both the sciatic nerves of a frog, at the upper part of its thighs, I passed a ligature round one of them, and drew it as tight as it was well possible, without dividing the nerve.
Three weeks after this, when the wound in its thigh had perfectly skinned over, I laid it open again, and divided the sciatic nerve.
Experiments in which the Sciatic Nerve was divided on one side, and the Crural Artery tied on the other.
I divided the sciatic nerve, on one side only, in four large frogs.
A branch of the middle tibial division of the sciatic nerve passes deep to both heads of M.
These exceptions were: prefixation of the lumbosacral plexus, six roots of the sciatic nerve, femoral nerve formed mainly from S2 to S4 and two twigs to M.
Semidiagrammatic dorsolateral view of the sciatic nerve of Tympanuchus pallidicinctus 2L, showing the distribution of the branches.
The sciatic nerve passes through the anterior part of the ilio-ischiatic fenestra.
A branch of the middle peroneal division of the sciatic nerve sends twigs to the deep surface of the anteroproximal part; the dorsal peroneal division of the sciatic nerve penetrates the deep surface of the proximal end.
Semidiagrammatic dorsolateral view of the sciatic nerve of Pedioecetes phasianellus jamesi 3R, showing the distribution of the branches.
The small anterior peroneal division arises from the anterior edge of the sciatic nerve.
He found an obturator supply, in addition to the usual sciatic supply, to M.
This separation can be extended to a point proximal to the origin of all the branches of the sciatic nerve; thus it can be determined which branches arise from the peroneal component and which from the tibial.
Appearance of various morbid states of the skin and hair of the neck and face in animals born of parents having had similar alterations in the same parts, as effects of an injury to the sciatic nerve.
Appearance of epilepsy also in animals born of parents having been rendered epileptic by the section of the sciatic nerve.
Nor has he ever seen a guinea-pig born without toes, which was not the offspring of parents which had gnawed off their own toes owing to the sciatic nerve having been divided.
Loss of certain phalanges or of whole toes of the hind feet which had occurred in the parents in consequence of division of the sciatic nerve was inherited.
Kasparek[88] cut one sciatic nerve of a guinea-pig and (after all inflammatory symptoms had subsided) injected the opposite ear with cultures of pus microbes.
When epilepsy is due to the destruction of the sciatic nerve, the foot of the affected side loses the two outer toes, so that the animal has only one toe, the inner.
He found that certain lesions of the spinal cord, or the brain or the sciatic nerve, give rise in guinea-pigs to epilepsy.
Diseased conditions of the sciatic nerve occurred in the offspring of guinea-pigs in which this nerve was divided.
Twenty guinea-pigs exhibited muscular atrophy on the upper and lower sides of the thigh, when in the parents such atrophy had been caused by section of the sciatic nerve.
Defn: Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; -- said of certain birds.
Defn: Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thing, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve.
The sacro-innominate articulation consists of the sacro-iliac joint and the sacro-sciatic ligaments.
And a blister, at the same time, a little above the knee-joint on the outside of the thigh, where the sciatic nerve is not so deep seated.
The great sciatic nerve leaves the pelvis in company with the gluteal nerves, through the great sciaticforamen (notch), passing downward along the posterior face of the femur.
When consideration is given the number of muscles that are supplied by the sciatic nerve and the function of these muscular structures, it is obvious that the leg cannot be used in sciatic paralysis.
Paralysis of the great sciatic nerve may be caused by central disorders, injury in falling, fractures and new growths.
However, the limb is capable of sustaining weight when it is fixed in position, but this is done without exertion of muscular fibers which are supplied by the great sciatic nerve.
Prognosis is decidedly unfavorable in paralysis of the great sciatic nerve.
Under the heading "sciatica," Scott[44] has described a case of acute sciatic affection wherein a pacing horse manifested evidence of great pain of a nervous character.
Because of its protected position, this nerve does not often suffer injury, and paralysis of the sciatic nerve is recorded in a few instances owing to its rarity.
Melanotic tumors in the paraproctal tissue in some cases, because of the large size of the new-growths, cause paralysis of the sciatic nerve.
Before evening the sciatica had indeed revisited Constance's sciatic nerve, and Sophia for the first time gained an idea of what a pulsating sciatica can do in the way of torturing its victim.
It was Sophia who did the running about, owing to the state of Constance's sciatic nerve.
Recently Aschoff and Koch have depicted hemorrhages in the sheath of the sciatic nerve, which undoubtedly must have given rise to symptoms during life.
In one guinea-pig in which scurvy was induced she found "many marked degenerated fibrillar bundles of both sciatic and peroneal nerves, slight degeneration of the phrenic nerves and one vagus and its cardiac branch.
Perhaps after this you will learn to treat your sciatic nerve with proper respect.
They were a valuable index to the state of the sciatic nerve.
The keg was dry, that was something, and if he spread the newspaper in his pocket over the most sciatic part of the shrapneled leg he might escape with nothing more than twinges.
The unexpectedness of the sciatic nerve, as set forth in your parting discourse, has amply proved itself.
It was, perhaps, responsible for the present state of his sciatic nerve but not for the selling of his birthright of sturdy youth.
By cutting the spinal cord or the sciatic nerve of guinea-pigs, Brown-Séquard brought about an epileptic state which was transmitted to the descendants.
Lesions of the same sciatic nerve, of the restiform body, etc.
The subject of the complication of neuralgia will be treated in a general manner farther on; but it seems necessary to note here the special liability of sciatic patients to this and to the most material complications].
The pain started from a point not far behind the great trochanter: pressure here caused intolerable darts of pain, which ramified into every offshoot of the sciatic nerve, as it seemed, and made the man quite faint and sick.
This kind of sciatic pain is not usually of the highest degree of intensity, but it generally spreads into a great many branches, both in a direct and a reflex manner.
I firmly believe that a large number of sciatic patients have their health ruined by treatment directed to a supposed rheumatic taint which is purely imaginary.
This observer excited local traumatic inflammation in the sciatic nerve of rabbits and dogs; the rabbit became paraplegic and died three days afterward.
Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thing, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve.
Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; -- said of certain birds.
In the Frog, the seventh, eighth, and ninth nerves unite to form the sciatic plexus which gives rise to the large sciatic nerve extending along the thigh, and dividing above the knee into the tibial and peroneal nerves to the leg and the foot.
The seventh, eighth, and ninth nerves run obliquely backwards, the eighth and ninth uniting to form the sciatic plexus, which gives rise to the large sciatic nerve which extends along the thigh, and down the leg.
Deeper down in the muscles of the leg lies the sciatic vein, and, between the sciatic and the femoral veins, the internal iliac artery may be seen running alongside of the sciatic nerve.
This artery lies between the femoral and the sciatic veins.
It is connected by a branch with the sciatic nerve.
In order to make out the femoral and the sciatic veins, turn the Platana over and remove the skin from the back of the leg.
Trace the femoral and the sciatic veins forward, and note that they join together at the point where they meet the pelvic veins and then run forward to the kidney as the renal portal vein on each side.
In one remarkable instance a patient complained of sciatic pain fifteen days after hysterectomy.
The knife passed through the great sciatic notch, and penetrated the uterus and the child’s skull.
The great sciatic nerve was injured, but the woman recovered, though she remained lame.
In another case the sciaticnerve in various creatures was stimulated with electricity from one-half to seven hours.
Speaking of instances where the sciaticnerves of cats are divided and the spinal cord experimented upon in rabbits, it told of their wild shrieks of agony.
It was deeply lodged, and resting on the sciatic nerve.
A case is mentioned in the Surgical History of the Crimean War where a soldier had the right sciatic nerve severely injured by the passage of a musket–ball.
I think that Doctor Lazzier can furnish us a good, handy, cheap prescription for sciatic rheumatism.
In a neighboring city Doctor Quagg had gone out to sell the Peerless Sciatacata, had been caught in a drizzle of spring rain and had been sent, raving angry, to the hospital with a most severe case of sciatic rheumatism.
When I met this gentleman in Columbus, Ohio, he was a living skeleton, having suffered for years from sciatic rheumatism.
During a storm, he suspended on this metallic circuit, by means of their sciatic nerves, frogs' legs and the legs of other animals prepared for the purpose.
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