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The authors have observed ten compartment syndromes of the leg. Nine occurred after tibial fractures, one after a contusive trauma. Early signs those of muscular and neural ischemia, with an acute pain when the toes are passively mobilised. The cast must be promptly removed. In 6 cases the two compartments were involved. In all cases the pulses were palpable. Arteriographs could occasionaly verify the integrity of the main arterial trunks. The treatment is based on early fasciotomies. It was realised in 5 cases, with good results when the fasciotomy was realised more than twelve hours after the trauma, the muscles were more or less necrotic. In one case all the muscles of the leg had to be excised.
Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot 1979 Jun
PMID:[Compartment syndrome of the leg (author's transl)]. 16 61

Cutaneous stimulation has had a long history as a method of pain control. While there is general agreement that modern techniques such as electrical stimulation and massage often provide relief from acute pain and may in some cases significantly affect chronic pain, the mechanism by which these techniques affect pain remains unclear. Significant attention has been focused on the effects of stimulation on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) along with the increasing evidence of important ANS modulation of nociceptive activity throughout the pain pathway. However, inconsistent results on the presence and direction of ANS changes from cutaneous stimulation characterize the recent literature. The present study investigated a nonelectrical cutaneous stimulation device, the Dermapoints Massageroller, as well as an active placebo massage. The results indicate that the Dermapoints Massageroller has both general effects associated with simple skin stimulation (such as increased skin temperature), as well as specific effects from increased stimulation by the toothed design of the roller. These specific effects include decreased muscle tension (at least for some muscle sites) and increased sympathetic activation. The results are consistent with a model of activation of Pacinian receptors as a possible mechanism for the antinociceptive properties of cutaneous stimulation.
Percept Mot Skills 1991 Apr
PMID:Autonomic and skeletal muscle responses to nonelectrical cutaneous stimulation. 185 67

A ten year nine month-old girl was admitted to hospital for a painful inflammatory tumour of the right popliteal area. There was a calcification on X-ray and computerised angiography showed a tumour. MRI showed a heterogenous irregular mass. This looked like a malignant tumour. At surgical biopsy: it was a circonscripta myositis ossificans. This benign tumour of soft tissues, rare in children (25 cases in the literature), had a spontaneous favourable evolution. Differential diagnosis with malignant tumour is well known, but is still difficult. Biopsy is necessary in doubtful cases. We had to remove the mass because of acute pain.
Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot 1993
PMID:[Non-traumatic myositis ossificans in a child. Review of the literature apropos of a case mimicking malignant tumor]. 789 48