Symptoms
- Muscle paresis or paralysis
- fibrillations
- fasciculations
- hypotonia or atonia- Tone is not velocity dependent.
- Areflexia or hyporeflexia -Along with deep reflexes even cutaneous reflexes are also decreased or absent
- Strength -weakness is limited to segmental or focal pattern, Root innervated pattern
The extensor Babinski reflex is usually absent. Muscle paresis/paralysis, hypotonia/atonia, and hyporeflexia/areflexia are usually seen immediately following an insult. Muscle wasting, fasciculations and fibrillations are typically signs of end-stage muscle denervation and are seen over a longer time period. Another feature is the segmentation of symptoms - only muscles innervated by the damaged nerves will be symptomatic.
Read more about this topic: Lower Motor Neuron Lesion
Famous quotes containing the word symptoms:
“A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn’t enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Murderous desire, hatred, distrust are nowadays the accompanying signs of physical illness: so thoroughly have we embodied our moral prejudices.—Perhaps cowardice and pity appear as symptoms of illness in savage ages. Perhaps even virtues might be symptoms.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)