A 52-year-old man with a history of hypertension and previously irradiated head and neck cancer presented with quadriplegia and anarthria sparing the face and sensory functions. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Weakness

  Thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spinal cord injuries may result in paraplegia (weakness or paralysis in the legs) and cause dysfunction of the bladder, bowel, and sexual organs. Read More [britannica.com]

  We suggest that any septic patients with unexplained muscle weakness, paralysis, or difficulty in weaning from the ventilator should be evaluated for CIP. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Fever

  Mediterranean spotted fever is a rickettsiosis caused by Rickettsia conorii. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Contact your healthcare provider if: You have a fever. You have trouble urinating or urinate less than usual. Your abdomen is swollen and firm. You have blood in your urine or bowel movement. [drugs.com]

• Shivering

  Not only that but their bodies do not sweat to cool down or shiver to warm up. It can be a pain in the butt for a person just wanting to get out of the house in the middle of summer or winter. [forcaregivers.wordpress.com]

  […] agar any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent aged people who are old collectively ager - ague a fit of shivering or shaking aide an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer alae a flat wing-shaped process or winglike [myscrabblefinder.com]

• Poikilothermia

  The excerpt below from Apparelyzed explains what is know as poikilothermia, or variable body temperature. [forcaregivers.wordpress.com]

• Wheelchair Bound

  It isn't the way the able-bodied and the wheelchair-bound normally interact. "Sometimes I won't even notice what's being done," he says of his morning manoeuvres. "My mind just goes miles away. [theguardian.com]

• Pharyngitis

  Representative volumetric reconstructions of lateral pharyngeal walls. Figure S4. Head movement checking angles. Table S1. [encore.seals.ac.za]

• Fracture

  Factors that may contribute to that determination include mechanism of injury, prior history of neurologic symptoms or injury, and anatomic features that may predispose to further injury such as disc herniation, fracture, or cervical stenosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Given the fact that both facets are dislocated and not fractured, an open anterior reduction has a high probability of success. [spineuniverse.com]

  In case of fracture, the bones or discs compress the spinal cord and surgery helps in relieving this pressure and in removing the bone fragments and realigning the bones. [epainassist.com]

• Muscle Weakness

  We suggest that any septic patients with unexplained muscle weakness, paralysis, or difficulty in weaning from the ventilator should be evaluated for CIP. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  The child may have muscle weakness, poor motor control and stiffness, also called spasticity, of the arms or legs. Muscle stiffness can cause clenched fists and walking with a scissor pattern on tiptoes. [stlouischildrens.org]

  Quadriplegia vs Quadriparesis While quadriplegia generally refers to the partial or total loss of use of all four limbs, those with “muscle weakness” suffer from what’s known as quadripareses (AKA tetraparesis). [mycerebralpalsychild.org]

  Tetraparesis or quadriparesis, on the other hand, means muscle weakness affecting all four limbs. An impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities is known as Paraplegia. [disabled-world.com]

• Muscle Spasticity

  We evaluated the adverse events, walking time and distance, and the difference in muscle spasticity before and after HAL-training using a modified Ashworth scale (mAs). No adverse events were observed that required discontinuation of rehabilitation. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  One of a type of quadriplegia is spastic quadriplegia which is a severe form of cerebral palsy. Spastic refers to muscle stiffness. [oaklandortho.com]

  […] quadriparesis Spastic Quadriplegia Spastic Tetraplegia tetraparesis Tetraplegia 四肢不全麻痺 四肢麻痺 弛緩性四肢麻痺 閉じこめ症候群 閉じ込め症候群 痙性四肢不全麻痺 痙性四肢麻痺 概念ツリー： 神経系疾患　nervous system disease 神経症状　neurologic manifestation 麻痺　paralysis 四肢麻痺　quadriplegia 病的状態と徴候・症状　pathological [lsd-project.jp]

• Joint Dislocation

  Severe deformities and joints dislocations can result. Common Causes There is a vast list of causation in the case of spastic quadriplegia. Prenatal causes These conditions are considered as high risk. [icddelhi.org]

• Quadriplegia

  RESULTS: N(9) responses were found in all patients with quadriplegia with a similar latency and amplitude observed in healthy individuals; N(13) responses were not found in any patients with quadriplegia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Irritability

  Ironically, simple problems such as irritating clothes or a full bladder may trigger this reflex; fortunately, removing the cause of the irritation or changing position may relieve the negative effects. Spastic muscles. [slideshare.net]

  Experienced by many quadriplegics, it occurs when the body reacts to an unconscious sense of irritation by increasing blood pressure and lowering the heart rate. [consumerdangers.com]

  Infection Lungs are damaged by bacteria, viruses, fungi, allergens, and other irritants. Inflammation Your body responds to infected airways by inflammation and additional mucus creation. [smartvest.com]

  For instance, surgeons may stabilize the bones in the spine or remove pieces of the broken bones that are irritating the spinal cord. [ic.steadyhealth.com]

• Meningism

  Other conditions, such as a brain stem lesion or spinal meningitis, may also result in quadriplegia. The phrenic nerve originates at C3 through C5 and is the neurological pathway between the brain and the diaphragm. [averybiomedical.com]

  Complications include prematurity, bleeding in the brain, severe asphyxiation, aspiration (fluid in the lungs), severe meningitis, shaken baby syndrome, low birth weight, and drug overdose. [excite.com]

  Some of the more common risk factors include: Low birth weight Hypoxia, or lack of oxygen to the brain Severe meningitis Brain hemorrhaging Other birth injuries In some instances, doctors and other medical professionals make errors immediately prior to [brain-injury-law-center.com]

  Cerebral palsy is caused by fetal brain injuries, infections at birth or during pregnancy, severe jaundice during birth, infections of the brain such as bacterial meningitis or viral encephalitis, or head injury following an accident, fall, or child abuse [oaklandortho.com]

• Monoplegia

  […] of lower limb G83.10 …… affecting unspecified side G83.11 …… affecting right dominant side G83.12 …… affecting left dominant side G83.13 …… affecting right nondominant side G83.14 …… affecting left nondominant side G83.2 Monoplegia of upper limb G83.20 [icd10data.com]

  Retrieved April 09th, 2019, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/quadriplegia Sentences Sentence examples Sentence Examples For instance, affected muscles in one limb is monoplegia, both arms or both legs is diplegia, both limbs on one side of the body [yourdictionary.com]

  spastic diplegia affects two limbs (commonly just the legs), spastic hemiplegia affects one or another entire side of the body (left or right); and spastic monoplegia involves a single limb. [en.wikipedia.org]

• Seizure

  A 26-year-old woman (para 1 + 0) was managed at the National Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria for postpartum eclampsia with quadriplegia following referral from a peripheral hospital with a history of a solitary tonic/clonic seizure and unconsciousness. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  There are a number of medications that can help control and reduce the frequency of seizures. Surgery Surgery is the last resort/ form of treatment for most forms of CP, but it can play a large role for children with spastic quad CP. [cerebralpalsyguidance.com]

  Frequent epileptic seizures are common in children living with spastic quadriplegia. [excite.com]

  In particular, sulphite oxidase deficiency produces severe mental retardation, seizures, spastic quadriparesis, dislocated lenses, and early death [18]. Acute steroid -induced tetraplegia following status asthmaticus [19]. [wikigenes.org]

  Mother with thyroid disorders Mother with mental retardation Mother with seizure disorder A lot of studies are going on to justify the high risk factors. [icddelhi.org]

HAL-SJ treatment on the left elbow was performed using the same protocol with a similar outcome. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

In general terms it can be said that if the patient has had paraplegia for longer than 24 hours, the prognosis is poor. Histology and tumour staging will complete the prognosis. [neupsykey.com]

Just as a doctor's estimate about how long a cancer patient might survive is not a guarantee, the prognosis your doctor gives you is merely a guess, not a promise or a final opinion. [spinalcord.com]

The toughest such decisions are the ones that involve physical disabilities and uncertain prognosis for cognitive outcomes. [pediatrics.aappublications.org]

This nerve conduction study can be seen in acute motor neuropathy of various etiologies, among which GBS is the most worrisome. Our patient found to have low calcium and parathyroid hormone level. His symptoms improved after calcium replacement. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Their etiology can be related to post-immunization reactions or collagen diseases or paraneoplastic (bronchogenic carcinoma) processes. A particular group ( 2 and possible highlighting with contrast. [neupsykey.com]

Characteristics The etiology of quadriplegia has multiple origins (listed below in differential diagnosis); with most common being trauma to the cervical spinal cord at levels anywhere from C1 to C7. [link.springer.com]

Tetraplegia Epidemiology and Etiology Many people wonder: “What causes tetraplegia?” after they hear about it for the first time. [spinalcord.com]

The injuries that occur above level C4 often result in respiratory deficiency. [2] Epidemiology /Etiology In the United States there is an estimated incidence of tetraplegia or paraplegia of 230 000 persons a year. [3] [4] Eighty percent of the tetraplegic [physio-pedia.com]

Objective To study the occurrence of autonomic hyper‐reflexia (AHR) after intradural sacral posterior rhizotomy combined with intradural sacral anterior root stimulation, performed to manage the neurogenic hyper‐reflexic bladder, and to determine the pathophysiological [doi.org]

Pathophysiologically, the spinal cord of the tetraplegic patient can be divided into three segments which can be useful for classifying the injury. First, there is an injured functional medullary segment. [en.wikipedia.org]

The pathophysiology of this kind of injury is due to the sudden stretching of the cord in a hyperflexion/hyperextension injury compounded by a narrow cervical canal due to pre-existing degenerative disc disease. 1 However, the delayed onset cannot be [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Occipitocervical fusion from the occiput to C6 was done to stabilize the spine and prevent future kyphosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Recreational therapy, respiratory care along with skin care are additional parts of the treatment which prevent many complications these patients are prone to. [ic.steadyhealth.com]

To prevent blood clots, the patient is given special stocking to wear on the legs. Pressure sores, which develop from staying in the same position for an extended period of time, also need to be prevented. [medfriendly.com]

Providing the patient with a special stocking to wear on the legs can prevent blood clots. [cerebralpalsysource.com]

Parachute Dedicated to educating Canadians about the prevention of brain and spinal cord injuries. [curlie.org]