Abstract
To investigate characteristics of neurological findings in the patients with cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) whose F-wave was not evoked, muscle tonus, tendon reflex and motor functional recovery stage (Brunnstrom stage) were examined in 10 CVD patients (4 males and 6 females, mean age of 49.3 years). In all of the patients, muscle tonus and tendon reflex were moderately or severely increased and motor functional recovery stage (Brunnstrom stage) was stage Ⅱ or Ⅲ.
In 3 patients, relationship between characteristics of H-reflex and F-wave and recovery of neurological findings following physical therapy was investigated. F-wave was evoked after physical therapy as neurological findings improved.
These results suggest that excitability of spinal neuron function may be significantly higher in the patients with CVD who showed high amplitude of H-reflex, but not F-wave, and that the appearance of H-reflex and F-wave may be related to the state of muscle tonus and tendon reflex.
