Quantitative assessment of anaesthetic nerve block and neurotomy in spastic equinus foot: A review of two cases

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 879-881

  Bleyenheuft, Corinne ^a   Detrembleur, Christine ^a   Deltombe, Thierry ^b   Fomekong, Edward ^a   Lejeune, Thierry M ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Muscle spasticity; Nerve block; Stoke

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLONUS; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GAIT DISORDER; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NERVE SURGERY; NEUROTOMY; PES EQUINUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPASTICITY; STROKE;

AGED; FEMALE; FOOT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE BLOCK; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; STROKE; TIBIAL NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56749173433     PISSN: 16501977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-0263     Document Type: Article

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