PARALYSIS - Common Patterns

1)      Hemiparesis

2)      Faciobrachial paresis

3)      Cerebrovascular accident - left carotid - Motor signs - dysarthria, paresis/paralysis of the right extremities or face or both, Blindness in the left eye or loss of vision in the right field of vision, Paresthesiae of the right extremities OR face, Aphasia, Symptoms and signs last more than 24 hrs

4)      Cerebrovascular accident - right carotid - Paresis/paralysis of left extremities, Loss of vision in the right eye or, rarely, the left field of vision, Paresthesiae of the left upper/lower limbs, Symptoms and signs last more than 24 hrs

5)      Cerebrovascular accident – vertebrobasilar - Paresis/paralysis of any 1 or more of any combination of limbs, Paresthesiae of any 1 or more of any combination of limbs, Blindness in 1 or both of visual fields, Imbalance, vertigo, diplopia, dysphagia, dysarthria, Symptoms, and signs last more than 24 hrs           

6)      Gait abnormalities – falls, clumsy gait due to circumduction

7)      Bell’s palsy -

8)      Radial nerve palsy

9)      Peroneal palsy

10)    Ulnar palsy

11)    Migraine aura

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