Lower motor neuron problems

Question 1

Where is the lesion?

Answer 1

In or below the anterior horn cell

Question 2

What are the characteristics?

Answer 2

Decreased muscle tone, weakness, muscle atrophy, areflexia (absence of reflex) and muscle fasiculations (muscle twitching)

Question 3

Root problem

Answer 3

Back pain and sciatica

Question 4

Cord disease

Answer 4

Weakness of upper limbs

Question 5

Median nerve pathology

Answer 5

Numbness in thumb, wasting of thenar eminence, weakness of thumb abduction