What Is an Upper Motor Neuron?

The cell body of the upper motor neuron is mainly located in pyramidal cells in the motor cortex's motor area. The axons of these cells form a descending pyramidal bundle. The fibers descending to the spinal cord are called cortical spinal bundles. The fibers that stop indirectly in the brain's motor nucleus are cortical nucleus bundles.

Upper motor neuron

The cell body of the upper motor neuron is mainly located in the cerebral cortex

(1) Defective symptoms: paralysis, paralysis of upper motor neurons, also known as

(1) Cortex: A localized lesion only damages part of it, so it mostly manifests as paralysis of an upper limb, lower limb, or face.

The upper motor neurons start from the central frontal lobe giant pyramidal cells of the brain (

1. Drug treatment: such as immunosuppressive agents and plasma exchange therapy, drugs can improve symptoms in the early stages of the disease. However, after taking it for a long time, patients will feel that the effective time of the drug is shortened. Once the drug is stopped, the disease will recur, even become difficult to control, and it will have certain side effects on the patient's body.

2. Physical therapy: The therapeutic effect of physical therapy in clinical application can only play an auxiliary role. The long course of treatment, the significant effect is slow, the cost is very expensive, and it cannot be the main treatment method.

3. Surgical treatment: There are certain indications for surgical treatment, not all patients are suitable. In addition, side effects are unavoidable in general surgical operations, and the patient's body is more traumatic. Cause other complications, there is a higher risk.

I. Health guidance: strengthen self-care, prevent infection, and take medication on time as instructed by the doctor.

2. Psychological nursing: Encourage patients to maintain a positive and optimistic attitude in life, and actively cooperate with treatment and nursing. Establish the confidence to overcome the disease, actively talk with patients, understand their psychological activities, and meet their psychological needs. This can strengthen psychological care.

Third, diet care ^[1] : eat more high-protein, high-calorie, easy-to-digest, high-vitamin diet, a small number of meals. Including some sweet and warm tonic foods, you can eat pure natural royal jelly, which can help restore the condition and help to strengthen your immunity. You can also eat more dates, red beans, raisins, ginger, lamb, millet, lotus seeds, walnut kernels, Beef, black chicken and other food. Long-term consumption has a nourishing effect on the patients themselves.

4. Respiratory care: Actively take good care of the respiratory tract. Due to the weakness of the respiratory muscles of patients with upper motor neuron disease, the respiratory tract cannot be effectively cleaned. In addition, the use of mechanical ventilation may cause infection. It is also necessary to turn back and pat regularly to suck out the secretions in the respiratory tract, humidify the airway, and the tracheotomy must pay attention to aseptic operation.