Current clinical assessments evaluating selective voluntary motor control are measured on an ordinal scale. We combined the Selective Control of the Upper Extremity Scale (SCUES) with surface ...

REHABILITATION of the upper extremity in hemiplegie patients presents multiple problems. Superimposed musculoskeletal and neuromuscular complications may be obscured by the hemiplegia. Prompt ...

When you take a walk, talk to a friend, or chew a piece of food, motor neurons are behind these movements. Just like other parts of your body, they can become damaged. You may have heard of ALS, ...

Scientists have identified the first compound that eliminates the ongoing degeneration of upper motor neurons that become diseased and are a key contributor to ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a ...

It is easy to confuse one motor neuron disease for another: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, primary lateral sclerosis, and lower motor neuron disease can all mimic each other. But each has a slightly ...

Our clinic, the Motor Neuron Disease/ALS Clinic, is sponsored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association and ALS Association and provides a multidisciplinary clinic serving the needs of individuals with a ...

Areflexic, or flaccid, bladder and bowels occur when the spinal cord injury is low enough to damage the cauda equina and alpha motor neurons. It also occurs in all spinal cord injury patients during ...

DISTURBANCES of eye movements frequently confront the physician with puzzling diagnostic problems. First of all, the examiner must determine whether the abnormal function of eye muscles is the result ...