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The authors have collaborated in studying the segmental innervation of the muscles in spinal injuries.
They begin by reviewing the historical aspects of this systematisation, which is still uncertain, and continue by describing their methods of investigation on complete and stabilised spinal cord lesions, in all of which muscle charts have been made.
By classifying all these tests in decreasing segmental levels, their comparison allows one to see in which order the muscles appear as the level of innervation descends. It seems obvious that in a series of quotations corresponding to a muscle the change from several zeros to one or two bears some relation to the upper segmental innervation of that muscle.
The main muscles of the upper and lower limbs have been studied and compared two by two. The authors submit a chart for the upper segmental innervation of the studied muscles.
They draw attention to the reasons for errors in muscle testing and discuss the reservations which must be made in respect of their work.
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Grossiord, A., Buzacoux, J., Maury, M. et al. Studies on motor metamerisation of the upper and lower limbs. Spinal Cord 1, 81–97 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1963.8
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