The Sound of Footsteps!!!
“it's possible to learn more about neurologic status from watching a patient walk than from any other single procedure”
Russell Nelson DeJong (1907-1990)
#MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia
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Jamir Pitton Rissardo
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Jamir Pitton Rissardo
@theneurolander
MD 🇧🇷 @UFSM_oficial @CooperNeuroRes | Neurology 🧠 | Writer ✍️ | Reviewer | Illustrator | Guitarist ♬🎸 World J Clin Cases editorial board member.
- Babinski and Friends!!! “Loss of descending pyramidal control of the reflex arc to suppress extensor withdrawal results in the upgoing toes in the plantar reflex known as Babinski's sign” 1st described by Joseph Babinskiin 1896 #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia 1/
- Movement Disorders - Ballism “chorea that affects proximal joints such as shoulder or hip” Mov Disord Society, 2011 - Freq causes: vascular and metabolic - Good response to antipsychotics, usually self-limiting #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia #movementdisorder 1/
- Nystagmus – Moving eyes!!! “rhythmic, involuntary, rapid, oscillatory movement of the eyes” Austrian otologist Robert Bárány (1976–1936) Nobel prize physiology of vestibular apparatus #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia #tweetorials 1/
- Meningeal signs “Brudziński neck sign, Brudziński symphyseal sign, Brudziński cheek sign, Brudzinski's reflex” Polish pediatrician Józef Polikarp Brudziński (1874–1917) #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia #tweetorials 1/
- Hoffmann and his Assistant!!! “upper limb equivalent of the Babinski sign test” - hyperreflexia - cervical cord #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia 1/
- The Examination in Coma “the father of modern neurological surgery” American neurosurgeon Harvey Williams Cushing (1869–1939) #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia #tweetorials 1/
- Corneomandibular reflex!!! “there is hardly a more valuable test than this to uncover a supranuclear lesion of the trigeminal nerve” Russian neurologist Robert Wartenberg (1887–1956) #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia #tweetorials 1/
- Hi #Neurotwitter! I am Jamir, #NONUSIMG applying to #neurology #match2023. Searching for a mentor. Any guidance or networking that anyone has to offer would brighten my day. Thanks! @Inside_TheMatch @mahad_minhas @StoriesImg @UnmatchedMD @NMatch2022 @IMG_Advocate @skeletalrad
- Paroxysmal Movement Disorders! Dyskinesias!!! - 4 groups, overlap - Prevalence: 1/150 000 - Myoclonus, dystonia, chorea, athetosis, tics #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia #movementdisorder 1/
- Clonus - The maximum hyperexcitability! “rhythmic involuntary muscular contractions induced by the sudden passive stretching of a muscle or tendon” - hyperactive DTR (4+) #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia #tweetorials 1/
- Nystagmus series – Part I (Basic principles) “the two neuro-ophthalmology legends” Richard John Leigh And David Samuel Zee #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia #tweetorials 1/
- Through the eyes!!! “ocular reflexes are the simplest ocular motor responses” German psychiatrist Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890) #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #EndNeurophobia 1/
