EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON THE MODE OF THE HEALING OF TENDON IN VARYING REGIONS OF PARALYSIS (1)

Abstract

Employing healthy dogs of one year old, varying regions of paralysis were produced by amputation of the sciatic nerve, injury of the spinal anterior horn, chordotomy, and injury of the spinal cord etc. for the observation of the healing mode of the tendon. In either of the paralyzed regions thus produced, the healing processes of the tendon were inferior to those observed on healthy regions. This weakening of healing processes was most remarkable in the case of spinal injury, amputation of the sciatic nerve came next followed by the injury of the spinal anterior horn. Chordotomy gave the best healing-processes among the varying kinds of paralysis stated above.