The use of diazapem (valium) in the relief of spasticity

Abstract

149from the hand-shoulder syndrome following trauma in people over the age of forty. The only reason I raise this point is the simple expediency of hydrocortisone injections into the shoulder capsule often unfreezes what in reality is an unfreezing process, pericapsulitis is in fact a self-resolving process but it may last something of the order of 18 months. The reason for treating is that the muscle contraction and the inability to use physio therapy will finally freeze the shoulder to the side, unless you can persist with as much active movement as the patient has or as much passive movement as the physiotherapist can permit him. The other little point about that is that some years ago in the develop ment of the hand-shoulder syndrome as a post-traumatic effect, many orthopa:dic surgeons were inclined towards a sympathectomy with terribly disappointing results and, no doubt, the same would apply in the treatment of the same condition arising as a result of cervical cord lesions.