Patients do not typically transition to an upper motor neuron bladder or bowels Bladder and bowel anal-rectal sphincter remains flaccid, becomes highly complaint and is characterized by underactivity ...

Hyperrelexic, overactive or spastic bladder or bowels occur with spinal cord injury at or above T12. The primary characteristic of this type of injury is increased organ spasms. The UMN bladder may ...

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Patients with primarily lower motor neuron findings often receive conflicting opinions as to what their disorder represents, as the absence of signs of upper motor neuron dysfunction is ...

Motor neurone disease (MND ... ALS affects both the upper motor neurones that travel from the brain to the spinal cord and the lower motor neurones, which branch out to the various muscle groups ...

Multiple models have been proposed for the mechanism by which mutant superoxide dismutase 1 induces motor neuron death and ... selective degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons, initiating ...