...Anna Stroud; Stephen Tisch; Benjamin P. Jonker Background: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a common cause of acquired dystonia, which can lead to significant interference with quality of life and societal participation. In the last two decades, the surgical treatment of dystonia has primarily focused...

... and December 2008, 10 patients underwent DBS and/or Vo thalamotomy for treatment of cerebral palsy in our institute of neurosurgery and rehabilitation medicine. Four patients received bilateral posteroventral GPi DBS as group I and 6 patients received GPi DBS plus unilateral thalamotomy as group II. Results...

... online: May 1, 2010 Combined Ablative Neurosurgical Procedures in a Patient with Mixed Spastic and Dystonic Cerebral Palsy Bunpot Sitthinamsuwan a Kannachod Chanvanitkulchai a Sarun Nunta-aree a Witsanu Kumthornthip b Apichart Pisarnpong c Teerada Ploypetch b a Division of Neurosurgery, Department...

.... Cerebellar stimulation Evoked potentials Spasticity Involuntary movements Dystonia Cerebral palsy Multiple sclerosis Appl. Neurophysiol. 40: 160-174 (1977/78) Physiological and Histological Effects of Cerebellar Stimulation Sanford J. L arson, A n th o n y Sances, jr., D avid C. H em m y, E d w ard...

.... Voluntary movements, as a result, are able to come through better; however, if the child has little voluntary ability, he is at least more relaxed, thus allowing the parents to care for him more easily. The children and adults with cerebral palsy have not been transformed from their previous status...

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... Surgery. Mt. Sinai Medical Center. Miami Beach, Fla., USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering. University of Miami, Fla., USA Keywords. Dorsal column stimulation Multiple sclerosis Demyelinating diseases Spinal cord injury Cerebral palsy Abstract. 101 patients with multiple sclerosis and other...

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... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Percutaneous electrodes Computer Four-electrode stimulation Spinal cord stimulation Motor disorders Spasmodic torticollis Dystonia musculorum deformans Cerebral palsy Proc. 8th Meeting World...

... responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Cerebellar stimulation Dentate nucleus Spasticity Motor disorders Cerebral palsy Stereotactic surgery Electromyography Proc. 8th Meeting...

...M. Galanda; S. Horvath The direct stereotactic suboccipital approach to the anterior lobe of the cerebellum was applied for deep high-frequency stimulation in three patients (for 29, 8 and 3 months) suffering from cerebral palsy. In agreement with our previous experience with a transtentorial...

...I. Hodgkinson; C. Bérard; M.L. Jindrich; M. Sindou; P. Mertens; J. Bérard Objective: Effects of selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) were studied in children with spastic cerebral palsy in orthopaedic and functional fields. Methods: In a prospective study, we compared the same population before SDR...

...M. Galanda; S. Hovath The stereotactic target for essential tremor is usually restricted to the nucleus ventralis intermedius of the thalamus, where total immediate suppression of tremor is obtained by continuous chronic electrical stimulation. According to authors'' experience in cerebral palsy...

...Kyo-Ho Lee The author has performed 108 stereotactic thalamotomies using MRI (MGSTs) without ventriculography in 77 cerebral palsy (CP) patients with dyskinesia(s) from January 1992 to January 1997. The clinical results were verified in terms of improvement of major preoperative symptom and patient...

...A.K. Msaddi; A.R. Mazroue; S. Shahwan; N. Al Amri; N. Dubayan; D. Livingston; K.R. Moutaery Spasticity represents the most handicapping sequelae of cerebral palsy in children. In this study, 28 children with spastic cerebral palsy were treated over the last 4 years by microsurgical selective...

... with cerebral palsy (CP) who received chronic cerebellar stimulation (CCS) for reduction of spasticity and movement disorders during the past 14 years. The prospective study included immediate postoperative follow-up data as well as longer term results from the quantitative test series. Although CCS...

... consistently reduces lower extremity spasticity and diminishes or alleviates muscle spasms in adults with spasticity of spinal origin. Single doses of intrathecal baclofen significantly decrease lower extremity muscle tone in children with cerebral palsy, and the effects can be maintained in these patients...

...Humberto Trejos; Rolando Araya The results of stereotactic surgery in 38 patients with cerebral palsy are reviewed. A total of 67 nuclei were approached and 109 stereotactic Iesions performed. The motor disorders were spasticity, athetosis, dystonia and tremor. The targets were chosen according...

...Bertram Feinstein; Curtis A. Gleason; Benjamin Libet Stimulating electrodes were chronically implanted unilaterally (in 1975–1977) in the vicinity of the locus coeruleus (LC) in three patients, one with cerebral palsy-spastic quadriplegia, two with epilepsy (one grand mal, one psychomotor...

...Leslie D. Cahan; M.S. Kundi; David McPherson; Arnold Starr; Warwick Peacock A group of 20 children with spastic cerebral palsy underwent selective dorsal rhizotomy for alleviation of spasticity. Pre- and postoperatively, cortical somatosensory evoked responses (cSSEP), H reflex and F wave studies...