However, his most important contribution to medical science was a paper in which he introduced the surgical procedure of posterior rhizotomy for the relief of spasmodic pain in a lower extremity.
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In 1964, a Dr . Wilkins wrote that this operation had lost most of its original importance, but it still has historical significance as a major step in the development of modern techniques for the relief of pain . " In 1967 Claude Gros and his colleagues at the neurosurgical hospital ( CHU Gui de Chauliac ) in Montpellier resurrected posterior rhizotomy for spasticity.
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Dorsal rhizotomy or selective dorsal rhizotomy ( SDR ), less often referred to as selective posterior rhizotomy ( SPR ), is the most widely used form of rhizotomy, and is today a primary treatment for spastic diplegia, said to be best done in the youngest years before bone / joint deformities from the pull of spasticity take place, but it can be performed safely and effectively on adults as well.
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