Fasano of Italy in 1978 introduced'selective'posterior rootlet rhizotomy for cerebral palsy patients and Warwick Peacock developed the Gros technique at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, by exposing the cauda equina, rather than at the spinal cord level.
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A "'rhizotomy "'( } } } } ) is a term chiefly referring to a neurosurgical procedure that selectively destroys problematic nerve roots in the spinal cord, most often to relieve the symptoms of neuromuscular conditions such as spastic diplegia and other forms of spastic cerebral palsy.
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If the spasticity is too much for the person to handle, other remedies may be considered, such as antispasmodic medications, botulinum toxin, baclofen, or even a neurosurgery known as a selective dorsal rhizotomy ( which eliminates the spasticity by reducing the excitatory neural response in the nerves causing it ).
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The 1913 use in Germany of the rhizotomy procedure by Otfrid Foerster, often wrongly credited as the father of rhizotomy, was therefore actually not the first such use, since Sherrington s studies were used as a basis for performing posterior root rhizotomy for the relief of spasticity in the lower limb muscles.
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The 1913 use in Germany of the rhizotomy procedure by Otfrid Foerster, often wrongly credited as the father of rhizotomy, was therefore actually not the first such use, since Sherrington s studies were used as a basis for performing posterior root rhizotomy for the relief of spasticity in the lower limb muscles.
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The 1913 use in Germany of the rhizotomy procedure by Otfrid Foerster, often wrongly credited as the father of rhizotomy, was therefore actually not the first such use, since Sherrington s studies were used as a basis for performing posterior root rhizotomy for the relief of spasticity in the lower limb muscles.
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That L1-laminectomy modification has since become the standard method, and SLCH has become internationally known as a major provider of the SDR surgery to those in need of it; for example, it is one of the first Google search results when inputting the word string " selective dorsal rhizotomy ".
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Because the muscles may have been depending on the spasticity to function, there is almost always extreme weakness after a rhizotomy, and the patient will have to work very hard to strengthen the weak muscles with intensive physical therapy, and to learn habits of movement and daily tasks in a body without the spasticity.
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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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The dorsal root or dorsal root ganglion ( that carry mostly sensory signals ) may be usefully targeted ( called rhizotomy ); with the dorsal root ganglion possibly the more effective target because some sensory fibers enter the spinal cord from the dorsal root ganglion via the " ventral " ( motor ) root, and these would not be interrupted by dorsal root neurectomy.
