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Lhermitte's Sign, sometimes called the Barber Chair phenomenon, is an electrical sensation that runs down the back and into the limbs, and is produced by bending the neck forward. The sign suggests a lesion of the dorsal columns of the cervical cord or of the caudal medulla. Read more...Click to read more below


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Treatments Patients Take For L'hermitte sign

Treatments Patients Take For L'hermitte sign
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
MRI Cervical Spine 1 1% MRI Cervical Spine: 1%
Topiramate 1 1% Topiramate: 1%
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