What Is an Upper Motor Neuron Injury?

Motor neuron damage is a class of diseases belonging to the Department of Neurology. The damage to us is mainly to invade the upper and lower pole motor neuron damage. It is a chronic disease with many types, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, progressive bulbar palsy, and primary lateral sclerosis.

Motor neuron injury

Interpretation of motor neuron injury

Causes of motor neuron injury

The condition of motor neuron injury is complex, and its etiology is still unclear. Experts speculate that it is related to the following factors:

1. Metal elements: Researchers believe that it is related to the lack of certain metal elements and the poisoning of certain metals.

2. Viral infection and immunity: Some people think that it is a toxic disease, and some scholars think that it may damage the spinal cord and cause motor neuron disease. The immune function measured on patients found that immune complexes were formed and immunoglobulins were elevated. Anti-ganglioside antibodies were positive.

3. Genetic factors: Some scholars count 5% -10% of cases with familial genetic predisposition, so they believe there are genetic factors.

Motor neuron injury classification

Motor neuron injury by disease site

1, mixed type: usually with hand muscle weakness and atrophy as the first symptom, usually from the side and then spread to the contralateral side, as the course of the disease appears the upper and lower motor neuron damage mixed damage symptoms, called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In the later stages of the disease, the muscles of the whole body became thin and atrophied, so that he could not lift his head, could not breathe, and was bedridden.

2. Upper motor neuron injury: manifested as limb weakness, tightness, and poor movement. Symptoms begin with both lower extremities, and later spread to both upper extremities, with the lower extremities being severe.

3. Lower motor neuron injury: more than 30 years old. It usually starts with small hand muscle weakness and gradual muscle atrophy, which can affect one or both sides, or the opposite side after starting from one side.

Motor neuron damage by age

1. Infant type of motor neuron damage: autosomal dominant or recessive inheritance. Onset in the mother's uterus or within 6-12 months after delivery. There is no difference between the sexes. The clinical features are babies crying faintly, unable to turn over, kick, etc., reduce muscle tension throughout the body, and tendon reflexes disappear. Often died of respiratory paralysis and suffocation.

2. Juvenile type of motor neuron damage: autosomal dominant or recessive inheritance. Mostly onset for adolescents. First, the scapular or pelvic girdle muscles are weak and atrophic, also known as the proximal type. Difficulty raising head, raising arms and squatting. May have pterygoid, duck step and gastrocnemius pseudohypertrophy and mild increase in serum enzyme activity, etc., it is extremely difficult to distinguish from limb girdle muscular dystrophy.

3, the adult type of motor neuron injury: often onset under the age of 50.

Motor neuron injury symptoms

Motor neuron injury It is a group of degenerative diseases that invade the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord and brain stem cell nuclei and pyramidal cells of the cerebral motor cortex. The disease is more common in middle-aged and elderly people and varies in speed. It can be progressive spinal muscular atrophy. Progressive bulbar palsy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The symptoms and signs of motor neuron injury are:

First, unilateral or bilateral hand muscle weakness, with significant tremor, interstitial motor neuron disease.

Second, upper limb muscles and scapular motor neuron disease, difficulty raising hands, weak combing, lower limbs are spastic paralysis, walking slowly, gait is scissors-like.

Third, hoarseness, atrophy of the tongue muscles, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing, saliva outflow, coughing after eating or drinking, difficulty breathing, and sputum is not easy to cough.

Home treatment of motor neuron injury

1. Massage the affected limb, passive movement.

2. Respiratory muscle paralysis, assisted breathing with ventilator.

3. For those who have difficulty swallowing, use nasal feeding to maintain nutrition and water intake.

4. Bee needle therapy, using bee tail needles to stab acupuncture points can get a certain effect.

5, prevention and treatment of lung infections.

Motor neuron injury care

I. Motor neuron damage mainly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people. At the time of onset, patients mainly show muscle atrophy, muscle weakness, hoarseness, etc. Therefore, in order to better treat motor neuron damage, it is necessary to do it at the same time as treatment. Good care work.

Second, the initial symptoms of motor neuron injury, ranging from weakness of the limbs and muscle atrophy, gradually become unable to move as the disease progresses, to complete bed rest. The furnishings of the room should be adjusted more orderly, easy to clean, simpler, and easier to scrub. The temperature, ventilation, and light of the room should also be considered.

3. Patients with motor neuron damage should strengthen physical exercise, strengthen their physique, avoid infectious diseases, eat and live regularly, avoid overwork, replenish the spleen and kidneys when they are over forty years old, and pay attention to keeping one's soul and mind, but to prevent disease basic method.

Fourth, motor neuron damage onset, hidden attack, often without burning lung injury, exogenous warm and evil process. Therefore, the disease is mainly caused by insufficient congenital endowment, acquired deprivation and other factors to damage the spleen, stomach, liver, and kidneys, resulting in loss of sperm and blood and lack of energy for qi and blood.

Motor neuron injury prevention

(1) Strengthen physical fitness and actively carry out physical exercise to prevent infectious diseases.

(2) Avoid toxic work and pay attention to drinking water quality.

(3) The course of injury of motor neurons is relatively long. It is necessary to insist on taking massage and massage, strengthen functional exercise, and review regularly.

(4) Avoid marriages between close relatives and actively conduct pre-marital, prenatal check-ups, and eugenic counselling.

Motor neuron injury diet

1. Eat more warm food and less cold. It is also necessary to drink water regularly and add natural royal jelly to help the disease recover its function and help to strengthen its own immunity. While treating motor neuron damage and muscle damage, as well as myasthenia gravis, muscle atrophy, and progressive muscular dystrophy, regardless of the patient's condition is weak spleen deficiency, spleen and kidney yin deficiency, and spleen and kidney yang deficiency , Liver blood deficiency type, qi and blood deficiency type, heart and blood deficiency type, lung deficiency phlegm and dampness type, which are all eat less cold, eat more warm.

2. In general, patients should eat more Ganwen supplement foods. You can also buy a bottle of pure natural royal jelly, which is most conducive to enhancing your own immunity and helping to recover the disease. Sweet food can play a role of tonic, neutralization, and urgency, so it is nourishing and strong, regulating the five internal organs of the human body, qi, blood, yin and yang, any deficiency.