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Lhermitte's sign may also appear during or following high-dose chemotherapy. [7] [8] Irradiation of the cervical spine may also evoke it as an early delayed radiation injury, which occurs within 4 months of radiation therapy. [citation needed] Delayed onset Lhermitte's sign has been reported following head and/or neck trauma.
A positive Spurling's sign is when the pain arising in the neck radiates in the direction of the corresponding dermatome ipsilaterally. [1] It is a type of cervical compression test. Patients with a positive Spurling's sign can present with a variety of symptoms, including pain, numbness and weakness.
Spurling's test: Roy Glenwood Spurling: neurology: cervical radiculopathy: Spurling's manoeuvre and sign at Whonamedit? axial compression and rotation of cervical spine to the side of symptoms causes pain Stellwag's sign: Karl Stellwag von Carion: endocrinology: thyrotoxicosis: infrequent and/or incomplete blinking, accompanied by Dalrymple's ...
Therefore, Spurling's test, which take advantage of this phenomenon, is performed by extending and laterally flexing the patient's head and placing downward pressure on it to narrow the intervertebral foramen. [2] Neck or shoulder pain on the ipsilateral side (i.e., the side to which the head is flexed) indicates a positive result for this test.
Jean Lhermitte (1877–1959), French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist Lhermitte's sign, also called Barber Chair Phenomenon, an electrical sensation produced by bending the neck forward or backward; Lhermitte–Duclos disease, tumor of the cerebellum; Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844-1925), French realist painter and etcher; father of Jean Lhermitte
Hoffmann's reflex (Hoffmann's sign, sometimes simply Hoffmann's, or finger flexor reflex) [1] is a neurological examination finding elicited by a reflex test which can help verify the presence or absence of issues arising from the corticospinal tract. It is named after neurologist Johann Hoffmann. [2]
The impact of craniocervical instability can range from minor symptoms to severe disability in which patients are bed-bound. The constellation of symptoms caused by craniocervical instability is known as "cervico-medullary syndrome" [4] and includes: [5] [6] [7]
A meta-analysis in 2008 concluded that the diagnostic accuracy of individual tests in the shoulder examination was limited, specifically that the Hawkins–Kennedy test and the Speed test have no discriminatory ability to diagnose specific shoulder pathology, and that results of studies evaluating other tests were too statistically ...