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namf
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07/14/04 - 09:36 PM             #1

Can anyone refresh my memory on the difference between UMN signs and LMN signs (when lesioned)?

Thanks a lot!

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07/14/04 - 09:47 PM             #2

flaccidity
hyperreflexia ,spasticity
clonus
+Babinski/no abdominal reflex


Lower
weakness
wasting
areflexia, fasicculations
fibrillations

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07/15/04 - 12:11 AM             #3

Just remember upper motor neuron lesion always means that everything is going up...or increasing. In lower motor neuron lesions everything is going down or absent. Hope that helps

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07/15/04 - 05:13 AM             #4

Thank you both very much grin







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