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Strokes can cause a variety of movement disorders, depending on the location and severity of the lesion. Hemiplegia is common when the stroke affects the corticospinal tract. Other causes of hemiplegia include spinal cord injury, specifically Brown-Séquard syndrome, traumatic brain injury, or disease affecting the brain.
Superior alternating hemiplegia (also known as Weber syndrome) has a few distinct symptoms: contralateral hemiparesis of limb and facial muscle accompanied by weakness in one or more muscles that control eye movement on the same side. [2] Another symptom that appears is the loss of eye movement due to damage to the oculomotor nerve fibers.
paralysis of a limb (monoparesis) or a larger area on one side of the body (hemiparesis) paralysis head and eye movements; inability to express oneself linguistically, described as an expressive aphasia (Broca's aphasia) focal seizures that may spread to adjacent areas (Jacksonian seizure) grand mal or tonic-clonic seizures
Hemiparesis – The loss of function to only one side of the body; Triparesis – Three limbs. This can either mean both legs and one arm, both arms and a leg, or a combination of one arm, one leg, and face; Double hemiparesis – All four limbs are involved, but one side of the body is more affected than the other; Tetraparesis – All four limbs
Paralysis is most often caused by damage in the nervous system, especially the spinal cord.Other major causes are stroke, trauma with nerve injury, poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy, peripheral neuropathy, Parkinson's disease, ALS, botulism, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, and Guillain–Barré syndrome.
Leukodystrophies are a group of hereditary diseases that are known to cause spastic hemiplegia. Brain infections that cause spastic hemiplegia are meningitis, multiple sclerosis, and encephalitis. [7] The spasticity occurs when the afferent pathways in the brain are compromised and the communication between the brain to the motor fibers is lost ...
[4] [6] [7] Paralysis is also often accompanied by changes in skin color and temperature, sweating, restlessness, tremor, screaming, and the appearance of pain. [6] Hemiplegic attacks happen irregularly and can occur with speech, eating, and swallowing impairment. Patients with AHC are frequently underweight due to these side effects. [7]
In a case reported only due to its rarity, triplegia was reported following a surgical removal of the tonsils. An eight-year-old boy was sent to Willard Parker Hospital on August 12, 1929, and had been diagnosed with poliomyelitis. After an unrelated, and routine, tonsillectomy there was complete flaccid paralysis and loss of feeling in both ...