Month: October 2019

Idiocy – a deep degree of mental underdevelopment (IQ less than 20), in which there is no thinking and speech; patients pronounce inarticulate sounds, they don’t understand speech, they don’t recognize loved ones. They lack the simplest

Debility – mild mental retardation, low level of intelligence (IQ 50-70). The main signs of moronity are the underdevelopment of abstract thinking, the inability to fully distract and generalize objects and phenomena of reality, the lack

The diagnosis of the disease is based on the characteristics of pain attacks, the absence of significant pain in the intervals between paroxysms, the presence of trigger zones on the skin of the face in

In 1962, Blom introduced the antiepileptic drug tegretol ( carbamazepine , finlepsin , stazepine ) into the practice of treating trigeminal neuralgia , which opened up real prospects for the successful treatment of this severe suffering. In the Soviet Union, other antiepileptic drugs were successfully used for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia : trimethine, ethosuximide ( suksilep ), morpholep ,

Under neuralgia as a private form of mononeuropathy, two kinds of conditions are understood: 1) pain in the zone of innervation of any nerves in connection with various lesions of the latter (compression, traumatic, infectious); 2) a special kind

The deepening of the wrist is lined with a wide palmar ligament, and a transverse ligament is stretched between the elbow and radial elevation. The median nerve passes through the carpal tunnel formed by these ligaments. Under

Syndrome of the infringement of the fourth plantar nerve ( metatarsalgia ) occurs due to infringement of the nerve trunk, which is formed from the inner and outer plantar nerves – the terminal branches of the tibial

This type of neuropathy among diseases of the peripheral nervous system takes the second place after its helicopterogenic syndromes. An average of 20 people per 100,000 are ill. Among them, only 20% of the suffering is due to otitis media, cerebellar arachnoiditis,

Frequency of occurrence. Since the XX century. gunshot wounds of nerve trunks of limbs begin to occur more often than in past wars. According to German statistics, injuries of nerve trunks in the First World War amounted to 1.5-4%

Damage to the radial nerve. The radial nerve is adjacent to the humerus and therefore often suffers from fractures in the middle third. In case of damage to the radial nerve, active extension of the hand and