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A P Ruskin

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PubMed1984

Name change proposal.

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Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine↗
PubMed1979

Rehabilitation of a patient with lower-extremity quadriprostheses.

A case report is presented that demonstrates the successful rehabilitation of an 84-year-old woman who had undergone successive surgical procedures resulting in bilateral total hip replacement and bilateral prostheses for below-knee amputations, i.e., quadriprostheses. It is emphasized that age per se should not be a deterrent to energetic rehabilitation efforts.

Aged↗
PubMed1979

Sphenopalatine (nasal) ganglion: remote effects including "psychosomatic" symptoms, rage reaction, pain, and spasm.

Many articles implicate the nasal ganglion in the production of remote symptoms and discuss treatment. Symptoms are primarily spastic, involving both visceral and voluntary muscles including muscle spasm in the neck, shoulder, and low back; asthma, hypertension, intestinal spasm; diarrhea, angina pectoris, uterine spasm; intractable hiccup, and many others. All these symptoms appear to have 2 common denominators. They are mediated by the autonomic nervous system and at least in some instances can be "psychosomatic." The sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) is a major autonomic ganglion located superficially in the pterygopalatine fossa, with major afferent distribution to the entire nasopharynx and important connections with the trigeminal nerve, facial nerve, internal carotid artery plexus of the sympathetic nervous system and, as shown in the rat, direct connection with the anterior pituitary gland. This paper presents arguments supporting the following hypotheses: 1. The SPG probably has a crucial role in lower animals in declenching the reflex responses known collectively as the rage reaction. 2. The SPG is a major point of entry to the autonomic system exposed to pathologic influences and readily accessible for therapeutic influences and readily accessible for therapeutic intervention. 3. A wide variety of symptoms are produced or maintained by alteration in autonomic system tonus and some of these may be affected by intervention on the SPG. 4. The possible relationship of some symptoms and "psychosomatic" conditions to the autonomic nervous system and the rage reaction must be considered.20

Anger↗
PubMed1975

A new urethroanal reflex revealed by sphincter electromyography.

Anal sphincter electromyography carried out during dilatation of the anesthetized urethra revealed a reflexogenic zone at the bladder neck, dilatation of which causes contraction of the anal sphincter. This reflex appears to be separate and distinct from previously described reflexes of the bulbocavernosus type which are triggered by somatic sensory stimuli. A possible role of this reflex in the separation of the functions of micturition and defecation is postulated.

Anal Canal↗