Post-Stroke Shoulder Pain: Shoulder Subluxation on Clinical Exams and Radiographs
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The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)
Introduction The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is probably the most widely used assessment tool for determining the severity of stroke on neurological...
Neuro Exam: Clonus
Introduction Clinically, muscle tone is assessed by judging the resistance of a patient’s limb to passive stretch. Damage to the descending motor pathways that terminate...
Neuro Exam: Post-Stroke Hemiplegic Gait
One of the main characteristic features of post-stroke gait, is the hemiparetic or hemiplegic gait. It is important to note, that in acute settings, patients...