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Guillain-Barré syndrome (nerve disease that causes paralysis) after a tetanus vaccine, history of—Your doctor will decide if you should receive this vaccine.
Muscle overactivity can be a side effect of spinal cord injury or illness. Treatment may include physical therapy, medicine or surgery.
Injury to the upper segments of the cervical spinal cord often results in complete or partial paralysis of respiratory muscles, including the diaphragm muscle.
Some people with polio whose breathing muscles were paralyzed were placed in large machines called iron lungs. These machines helped them breathe and may ...
The test can detect brain tissue damaged by an ischemic stroke and brain hemorrhages. Sometimes a dye is injected into a blood vessel to view the arteries and ...
Sudden weakness or paralysis on one side of the body — arm or leg — or difficulty walking can be a sign of stroke. "'S' stands for speech slurring," he says ...
results, showing that the networks of neurons below a spinal cord injury still can function after paralysis. On the Mayo Clinic Radio podcast, co-principal ...
Diagnosis. To diagnose botulism, your healthcare professional checks for muscle weakness or lack of muscle movement, called paralysis.
Amantadine is an antidyskinetic medicine. It is used to treat Parkinson's disease (sometimes called "paralysis agitans" or "shaking palsy") and its symptoms, ...
Paralysis or numbness of the face, arm or leg. You may develop sudden numbness, weakness or paralysis in your face, arm or leg. This often happens just on ...
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