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Positive Upgoing Babinski Sign on Physical Exam (Abnormal)

Dr. Bruno Farnetano @bruno.farnetano

#Babinski #Sign #Positive #PhysicalExam #clinical #video
Positive Upgoing Babinski ... #PhysicalExam #clinical ... #video #foot #upgoing ... #neurology #reflex ... #abnormal
Upper Motor Neuron (UMN) lesions are lesions occurring anywhere in the CNS from the brain up
clinically characterized ... very different clinical ... and a positive Babinski ... reflex, presenting ... surface of the foot
Hoffman's sign. Even in this specific case, accompanied by a clonus outline (rhythmic contractions). The median
pathway and the spinal ... root is C5-6. ... #Positive #Abnormal ... #clinical #video ... #neurology #PhysicalExam
Brissaud's Sign

If the patient did not have his toes ... is there a sign that can
the plantar skin reflex ... substitute for Babinski's ... the homolateral foot ... to the cortico-spinal ... #Neurology #clinical
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
neurological lesion: Clinical ... injury • Gait is abnormal ... reflexes: Areflexia ... UMN Symptoms ... differential #algorithm
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Guillain-Barre Clinical ... Decreased / Absent Reflexes ... : Due to nerve root ... CSF PROTEIN - NORMAL ... of intrathecal spinal