From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-01-10 03:51:03 UTC
Subject: RE: Extensor rigidity/hyperreflixia?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <7741497.1105329063142.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
We ahve seen unilateral rear leg extension from a markedly enlarged node.
We've seen it bilaterally from three things:
very enlarged nodes (several)
peripheral edema (one and all of her limbs became rather like swollen sausages, esp. the rear limbs)
and
muscle wasting from prolonged illness (one had lympho in her spinal cord, but we have seen it with other very advanced malignacies and with very advanced heart diseases (cardiomyopathy and A/V Heart Node Block)
These things help from our experience: massage (not only of legs but also of feet -- massaging the feet can be very important during this)
Range of motion exercises, including in a warm tub of water.
Treating for edema helps some when that is the cause but from our experience by the time peripheral edema happens things are bad enough that not much more can be done. (She had very advanced hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and she also had marked muscle loss at that point.)