Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . herefore, there is not the rapid wasting of the armand forearm which is noticed in adults suffering from paralysis of thebrachial plexus. When the condition has lasted three or four monthsthere sometimes appears a slight stiffiiess of the unparalyzed muscles,so that bending the forearm and wrist or opening the little closed handis not as easy as at the beginning. A permanent rigidity^ however, 180 INJURIES OF SPINAL NEBVES AND NEUEITIS. rarely if ever develops. Many of these cases go on to spontaneousrecovery, which ensues wit
Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . herefore, there is not the rapid wasting of the armand forearm which is noticed in adults suffering from paralysis of thebrachial plexus. When the condition has lasted three or four monthsthere sometimes appears a slight stiffiiess of the unparalyzed muscles,so that bending the forearm and wrist or opening the little closed handis not as easy as at the beginning. A permanent rigidity^ however, 180 INJURIES OF SPINAL NEBVES AND NEUEITIS. rarely if ever develops. Many of these cases go on to spontaneousrecovery, which ensues within six months after birth. Others remainlonger and do not recover within the first year. The condition mayremain for three or four years and pass away only when the child isold enough to be taught systematic gymnastic exercises. I have seenone case where no recovery had ensued after seven years, and then anoperation by Dowd demonstrated the existence of a cicatricial mass atthe junction of the roots of the fifth and sixth cervical nerves in the Fig. 89. Fig.
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