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Difference between Spasticity and Rigidity
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What is Spasticity?
Spasticity in Greek means "pulling". Spasticity is a condition where a number of muscles suffer continuous contraction, stiffness, and tightness. It is caused by lesions in the pyramidal tract i.e. UMNL (Upper Motor neuron lesion). Spasticity is characterized by spasm, especially the tonic spasm. This kind of stiffness or spasm interferes with the speech, normal movement and gait. Spasticity is uni-directional, i.e. the resilience to motion is only experienced when the joint or a muscle makes a move in some particular direction. Spasticity is a common symptom of a demyelinating disease called as Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and is termed as muscle stiffness. In this disease, the neuron cells of the brain and spinal cord suffer damage. Spasticity is dependent on velocity i.e. it can be noticed with fast movements.
What are the causes of spasticity?
Spasticity takes place when the messages from the central nervous system are not transmitted properly to the spinal cord and the muscles, due to the degradation of the paths between the brain system, the spinal cord and the muscles being
It is also caused due to the progressive degeneration of myelin and the nerve fibers.Myelin is a fatty white substance that envelops the axon of nerve cells, forming an electrically insulating membrane.
Spasticity also takes place due to contraction of the extensor muscles and the flexor muscles that causes pain and weak coordination.
Acquired brain trauma
What are the symptoms of spasticity?
Hypertonicity i.e. rising muscle tone, that causes stiffness, rigidity and dysfunctional bladder.
Uncontrollable muscle spasms (called clonus)
Exaggerated tendon reflexes (tense muscles)
Nocturnal awakening
Deformity causing difficulty in walking, moving and speech.
Abnormal positioning of arm, wrist, fingers, and shoulder.
Involuntary jerky movement.
What is Rigidity?
It is defined as a state of stiffness, inflexibility, and inability to bend, stretch, twist or any deformity under pressure. Rigidity is also known as muscle tension or rigor. Rigidity is mostly bi-directional, i.e. resistance to movement in muscles is felt regardless of speed and course of direction in which the muscles and tissues exhibit their motion. Rigidity can be seen in extrapyramidal lesions, (part of the motor system causing involuntary actions) for example Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurological disease which affects movement.
What are the causes of Rigidity?
Wilson's disease (Autosomal recessive condition inherited of copper metabolism in lungs, liver, brain and other tissues.
Multiple system atrophy
DMD (Dystonia musculorum deformans). This is a disease where painful muscle contractions cause exaggerated distortions.
MNS (Neuroleptic-malignant syndrome). This is a life-threatening disease. It is described as idiosyncratic reaction toneurolepticmedications.
Catatonia (State of unresponsiveness to external stimuli).
CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease i.e. fatal brain disorder).
Progressive supranuclear palsy or Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome
Acute cerebral infraction
Multiple system atrophy (MSA) or Shy-drager syndrome (neurodegenerativedisorder due to dysfunction of autonomic nervous system)
Basal ganglia infection
Gegenhalten (involuntary resistance to passive movements).
lupus, (a chronic inflammatory disease that causes pain and stiffness in the joints)
Viral and bacterial infections.
What are the symptoms of rigidity?
Bradykinesia (impaired ability and slowness of movement)
Stiff and inflexible muscles
Pain, severe muscle weakness and muscle cramps
Decreased movement
A fixedfacial expression called a "mask"
Difficulty moving in bed
Difficulty getting up from a chair
Trouble in writing, walking and clothe buttoning Restlessness and irritability
1) Definition Spasticity and Rigidity
Continuous contraction of muscles
The state of stiffness, inflexibility and inability to bend.
2) Type of muscles that are affected
Spasticity commonly affects muscles of legs and arms, neck. Eyelids, face, and vocal chords. It can be also said that spasticity involves only one muscle group i.e. Flexors.
Rigidity can affect any muscle of the body, i.e. both Flexors and Extensors.
Symptoms of Spasticity and Rigidity
Symptoms of spasticity include alleviated functional abilities, unusual posture, pain in joints, persistent stiffness and contractures, non-progressive motor growth, deformities in joints and bones and excessively active reflexes
Symptoms of rigidity include stiffness, inflexibility of muscles, cramps, mask (fixed facial expression), inability to write and clothe buttoning, trouble to get up from a chair or bed and pain.
3) Velocity dependence
Spasticity depends on velocity. This means that spasticity is more noticeable with fast movements. It exhibits abnormally high muscle tone due to the excitability of the stretch reflex.
Rigidity is not dependent on the velocity of the movement. In this, the resistance of a joint is unaffected by the speed of movement of muscles.
4) Lesions in Spasticity and Rigidity
Spasticity is found in pyramidal tract lesions (Upper motor neuron lesion).
Rigidity is found in extrapyramidal lesions, (i.e. parkinsonism) like the rubrospinal or vestibulospinal tracts.
5) Reflexes
Spasticity covaries with Hyperreflexia. Hyperreflexia is a condition in which involuntary nervous system shows a disordered response to external stimuli. It is caused due to spinal cord lesion or injury.
Rigidity covaries with Hyporeflexia. Hyporeflexia is a condition in which there is weak or diminished reflex in reaction to some external stimuli.
Summary of Spasticity and Rigidity
The points of difference between Spasticity and Rigidity have been summarized below:
Two common cases of resistance to movement are spasticity and rigidity. Both of them demonstrate hypertonic conditions, however, their causes, symptoms, and attributes differ. These two states are elicited while examining the tone of muscle limbs. Spasticity features include clonus and increased reflexes while as the features of rigidity include mental state, alertness, and emotions.
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January 1, 2020 • 2:50 pm
Hi when I was 4 I fell down a flight of stairs which caused atlas subluxation. My whole life I felt horrible muscle pains that would go away. Legs stomach but mostly neck. I would go to a chiropractor who adjusted by third vertebra but never the atlas. 36 years later my body started to go numb and I had pain in all my body. Nobody could find a cause until an upper cervical chiropractor checked me out. My atlas was out 4 and 3/4 a degree. It's been 11 years now and I need to get my atlas adjusted often. My chiropractor also does a technique called Alexander which helps train my tight muscles to relax. I finally self diagnosed myself with rigidity. I am slowly getting better through chiropractor NUCCA and Alexander and more recently I have been able to stretch and play sports which helps. My question is would drugs help me as well. I read there are drugs that can help with rigidity. Also what kind of doctor would I go to if this would help?
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USE [My_DB]
GO

SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[INSERT_PRODUCT]
    @id             int,
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It's working fine...
Then, I create a VBA code that connect with my_DB in SQL Server and fill the columns as follow:
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    Dim strConn As String
    Dim Cmd As ADODB.Command

    Set Conn = New ADODB.Connection
    strConn = "Provider=My_Provider; Data Source=My_Server;" _
             & "Initial Catalog=My_DB;Integrated Security=SSPI;"
    Conn.Open strConn
    Set Cmd = New ADODB.Command
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        .ActiveConnection = Conn
        .CommandText = "INSERT_PRODUCT"
        .CommandType = adCmdStoredProc
        .CommandTimeout = 0
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        .Execute
    End With

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My output is a row in SQL Server stating id=16 / Product_Name= Essaii / Price=155 / Quantity= 9.
Ok fine that's cool my try worked. Now I have to insert the same way a big Excel table (approx 50,000 rows :) ) in My_DB in SQL Server.
Should I loop each row? If so, should I create a table object where I store my Excel table and loop through it?
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Thank you so much in advance for helping me to sort this out.
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Trish R.
I really liked this book, except for a couple of things. I don't like reading about a woman who worries from day to day if they'd have enough to eat then read that she's "plump." The chances of anyone even being close to plump when food is scarce is crazy. AND I absolutely hate it when a woman is described as "five feet nothing," and the hero is six feet four. "When she's nose to nose her toes are on it and when she's toes to toes her nose is on it." That's what I think of when she's soooo short and he's soooo tall. I mean, for Pete's sake, picture it! She too short to even reach around his neck and he's too tall to kiss her without bending his knees and bending over to reach her lips. I wish authors wouldn't do that. BUT, that's just my opinion! Verity was nowhere near stupid. She made no stupid decisions and was very brave because she didn't take Malcom's crap. She was afraid of him but she wasn't stupid, IMO. This was about an earl who was kidnapped as a small boy, Maxwell/Malcom, and taken to live in the Dials in London and was not discovered to be alive until he was in his 30's, and even then he had a difficult time remembering who he really was and if he really wanted the life of the "ton" or if he wanted to stay in the sewers of the Dials. AND that's where he met reporter Verity Lovelace. There was sex in this book and the F-bomb was used 6 times. As to the narrator: It doesn't get any better than Tim Campbell. The man is a genius with accents.
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Angelina S.
Difficult for me to rate
Narration was great. And the story was awesome and interesting. The struggle is with the character of Verity who is so incredibly stupid that she is unrelatable. Over and over, she puts herself in dangerous situations for no reason other than she is an idiot. Also, when she meets the earl, she misses every sign of who he is. She is frustrating beyond words and makes it impossible to understand why the earl finds her attractive. She is also a Victorian version of the paparazzi- therefore extremely unlikable. On the other hand, Tim Campbell's performance of the earl is toe curling. The character of the earl is everything Verity isn't. Smart, sexy, interesting and, yes, he has to keep saving her from her own stupidity. I loved the earl, but hated Verity. Tough call to rate.
G.G.Gael
In My Opinion...
... Angela S. is spot on in her review. Tim Campbell's performance of the earl is smoldering to incendiary. Verity's character is frustrating to aggravating to idiotic.
I usually love me some Christi Caldwell but this book left me wanting more. I don't think she built up a believable relationship between the two main characters. And while I liked them both individually, together they just didn't make sense the way I wanted them to. The narrator was great when voicing Malcom but I couldn't get over his voice for Verity. Overall, not terrible but not my fave.
frances shelton
Oh my !!!
It was a pages-turner read, why I could not read it previously, I needed a free-day devoted to this story. Just a few sentences in Percival's story and my heart was bleeding for him and the childhood he had been robbed once he became Malcolm North. Malcolm is no more the sensible heir of an earldom, he has become a ruthless and merciless king of the underworld. Surviving the gutters, he has been stripped of any innocence and kindness he might have left after the brutal upbringing he was given. Despite his apparent coldness, he is not the icy blooded monster everyone appears to think he has become. In his way, even if he keeps everyone at arm's length, he shows concern for the weakest under his protection. Over the years, he has gleaned a bunch of broken souls and risk-takers, and whatever he might tell himself, they are his kin and from all those, he has won their indefectible loyalty. Verity, without having the same dark past than Malcolm, was not cuddled in a classically portrayed family, she had been shunned for her mother's sins, whose sin was to have loved and trusted the wrong man. A man who loved them too, but too weak to fully take care of them. Why at the young age of twelve she became her remaining family only support. From then, she worked her skin to elevate her circumstances, alas it is well-known women were seen as not fit for intellectual labors. And even if she is not one to cover, proving women's worth is a challenge. And it is not prepared for the worst of the city, she runs head held high in the sewer and whatever are her mistakes, she fights like a hellion. Both have experienced a good life with comfort or some until they find themselves with nothing left and must fend for themselves or sank. Now together, they need to find their right place, she the illegitimate daughter and a woman, striving for acceptance in a world made by men for men and he the Earl raised in the slums of the city, to seek his bearing among his peers Their story is one of the small trusts won one at a time until these morph to a deeper sentiment. Yet, with the past looming over them and some shadowy figures still ready to pounce, will their burgeoning feelings be enough. As I came to learn with Mrs. Christi Caldwell's work, she has it mapped out, her heroes have oft connection with previous works. And here, she does not disappoint, while her heroes have not been seen previously, they are linked to another couple. You can perfectly read this first in a series as what it is a standalone story, yet as I have read Courting Poppy Tidmore, I confess I adored watching a couple of heroes finds its epilogue. And what a sweet epilogue with the best revenge ever. I can only praise Mrs. Christi Caldwell for her so very unique insight into the historical period, far from the ballrooms and closer to the real people. She is the bearer of amazing tales that feed the reader a kaleidoscope of emotions. 5 stars for this tale of approval and embracing one's true identity.
Brilliantly executed!
Thank you to The talented Christi Caldwell and the brilliant narrator, Tim Campbell ❣ Wrackked with anxiety over Covid-19, her book,"In bed with the Earl," was a welcome balm. It is the flipside of Tristan's story in "Courting Poppy Tidemore," It reminded me of Julia Quinn's " mr. Cavendish, I presume" & " The lost duke of Wyndham" --Telling the same story twice, the first time from one person's point of you and then the next time from the other person's point of view. As in those books, these two men were both victims, And it is in the brilliant telling of the story that this becomes poignantly clear. Highly recommend!
Rowen S
Heroine= too stupid to live.
Love Tim Campbell's narration. The hero was "tragic to strength and power" which is a common theme, but it works well in this story. The heroine was a , very unlikable, journalist. She continually puts herself in stupid situations. Stupid as in: She is an idiot and the way the story was written; the situations are ridiculous. Her character takes 'suspension of disbelief' to new heights. In one scene our 5' tall 100lb heroine knocks out a 6' 200lb brute who attacked her. Much eye rolling ensued. All the men, with the exception of the hero, are ridiculous over the top misogynistic caricatures. That is just lazy writing. I've noticed this type of character theme is becoming increasingly more common is Christi Caldwell books. I'll probably take a break from her writing for awhile.
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Melissa Bingham
Great story with original plot. Fantastic voice. By Tim Campbell. Great ending. Christy CauLdwell is one of the best writers in historical romance.
This was a great book!! 😩
I enjoyed every minute of it! The way the story just unraveled itself was just so good. A really good start for the series. The main characters had such great chemistry! Tim Campbell killed the narration! He did an excellent job. ☺
Ms.V
I absolutely loved this first in series, it had it all! loveable character's, a wonderful H/H, original plot which is so refreshing and the narrator knocked this out of the park!! delicious!


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First of all, I am not an english speaker so sorry about my bad english.
I thougth that probably will be a good idea sharing mounts and gold between all chars in the same account. I dont know if it is possible, but it will be nice dont need to farm twice or more times the same mounts for different chars (same for some achievements).
About gold, sometimes we need to change a lot between chars to send money from one char to another and it will be much easier and faster to share the gold in all the account.
Thanks for read my request and I hope you guys have a nice day.
I can imagine that would be very handy. But each char have to work for there own mounts and archievment's.
There are some mounts in game that are account bound and also heirloom gear is account bound. Gold you can send from char to char with the in game mail system.
But for archievment's and items each char have to do it on his own, that is a part of the game.
Hi, who has experienced the same issue?


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South Korea and North Korea Talking, Peace Talks On The Way
January 21, 2011 Mark Ryabtsev Foreign Affairs, Military, News 0
The relationship between South Korea and North Korea can best be described as a roller coaster. Just as soon as talks begin to bring peace between the two countries, which have been in war since the middle of the twentieth century, a conflict seems to break out.
With major efforts like the Six Party Talks, every few years it seems as though the issues between the two states are finally going to be resolved.
However, North Korea's firing of missiles and continuation with their nuclear weapons programs in addition to the recent attack on South Korea, the first direct combat between the two states since 1953, always stop the progress for peace.
Now, another effort to restore a positive relationship between the two East Asia states is underway.
North Korea has offered to conduct high-level military discussions. South Korea has agreed to hold the talks only if North Korea can promise that they will not attack the southern state again, as they did in late 2010.
South Korea is also hoping to hold talks between government officials to try to negotiate a situation where North Korea will end their nuclear programs and disarm their nuclear weapons.
Wednesday, President Hu Jintao of China hinted that North Korea might in fact have the nuclear enrichment program that they adamantly claim that they do not have. Also, Hu said that he and President Barack Obama would be joining forces to try to get North Korea to denuclearize.
Hu said that his state, along with the United States, will "work with the relevant parties to maintain peace and stability on the peninsula, promote denuclearization of the peninsula and achieve lasting peace and security in Northeast Asia."
Robert Gibbs said that he believes that the newfound alliance between China and America in denuclearizing East Asia played a major role in South Korea agreeing to the talks with North Korea. With the United States and China, North Korea's only ally, agreeing to work to disarm North Korea, South Korea can be confident that they are not alone in their mission.
As of now, there is no reported time and date for when the talks will commence.
While it may be tempting to say that this time around things will be different and the peace talks will result in a final treaty or agreement to end the conflict that the two states have been in for over half of a century, the numerous failed peace talks cannot be disregarded.
Jintao
six party talks