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Objective and quantitative methods for measuring muscle performance are essential for evaluating muscular function and treatment response in poliomyelitis.
Highlights the importance of objective and quantitative methods for measuring muscular performance in poliomyelitis and motor nerve lesions.
Accurate evaluation of muscular function is of clinical importance as an aid to diagnosis and prognosis in a number of neurologic conditions. It is essential for determination of the site and extent of injuries to peripheral nerves and is useful in establishment of the prognosis, particularly by early detection of signs of regeneration. In cases of poliomyelitis, tests of muscular function are of particular value when one is charting the degree of involvement and as a guide to muscle reeducation and evaluation of progress in response to therapy. The recent work of Kenny has brought fresh interest to the problem of behavior of muscle in the acute stage of this disease and has introduced new concepts of the symptoms and treatment. In order to assess the merits of her contribution, it is important to use objective and quantitative methods for measuring the performance of muscles. At present the most generally
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Robert S. Schwab (1943) studied Poliomyelitis and other motor nerve lesions. Quantitative methods for measuring muscular function was evaluated. Objective and quantitative methods for measuring muscle performance are essential for evaluating muscular function and treatment response in poliomyelitis.
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