Abstract:F-waves are used to measure the excitability of spinal motor nerve function. This study aimed to investigate the F-wave patterns in a patient with cerebrovascular disease who had no voluntary movement of the hand, particularly the thumb, caused by a considerably increased tone of the thenar muscles. A patient with right hemiplegia caused by left cerebral hemorrhage (putamen) showed a considerably increased tone of the thumb flexors and no voluntary movements. F-waves were recorded from the affected thenar musc… Show more
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