Tourniquet Paralysis may Reflect Injury of Muscle Spindles

Tourniquet paralysis.

CLINICAL MATERIAL OF necessity, a very large sample of procedures needs to be gathered to give a significant amount of information, as complications from the use of tourniquets are rare. Because of their rarity and the concern of the surgeon on these occasions, it was thought that questionnaire information was likely to be quite accurate. One hundred and fifty-one members of the Australian Orth...

Tourniquet paralysis syndrome.

were more aware of the existence of the characteristic clinical syndrome which may follow the application of a tourniquet and which is the subject of this paper. This complication can be overlooked for several reasons. First, the paralysis and the associated phenomena can be of relatively short duration. Secondly, the lesion can be a mild one and result in an incomplete paralysis, which may be ...

Stimulation of muscle spindles

The pathogenesis of pneumatic tourniquet paralysis in man.

The relative importance of ischaemic and direct mechanical injury to nerves compressed by a tourniquet, in the pathogenesis of tourniquet paralysis in man has not been established. To investigate this question, conduction in ulnar or median nerve fibres has been measured in healthy subjects both at the level of the pneumatic tourniquet and distal to the tourniquet. Measurement was prior to, for...

Muscle Spindles in Phasic and Tonic Muscle.

Comparisons were made of muscle spindle structure between phasic and tonic muscles stained by the gold chloride method. The most significant difference was in the ring diameter of the sensory nerve terminals wrapped around the nuclear bags. In tibialis anterior it was largest, in gastrocnemius intermediate, and in soleus smallest. This order corresponds to the contraction time, tibialis anterio...