Toward the Clinical Assessment in Cervical Spondylosis Associated with Paresthesia

Abstract

As you know, we have met with the patients suffered from cervical spondylosis with so to speak paresthesia in daily living. We planned, this time, to search for how clinical assessment about like that kind of paresthesia was to be in practical scene.
The subjects of this studies, they were cared in the out-patient programs, the department of rehabilitation medicine at Teikyo University, 26 cervical spondylosis patients complained of any paresthesia on their arms.
In the first place, to clarify the differences between the normal and patient groups clinicaly, we were planing to check and count sensory and motor conduction velocity, somato-sensory evoked potential and latency of each component. And then, plethysmogram was also checked but decidedly, there was no significant difference between the normal and innormal group statistically.
Accordingly, it has become clear that we had so many items which was to be solved scientifically in these investigations. And that we got to know its difficulities and possibilities to put like this clinical assessment in practice.