Open AccessHistorical Review: Suspension Therapy for the Treatment of Tabes Dorsalis
Author(s) -
Marie-France Weiner,
John Russell Silver
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
european neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.573
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1421-9913
pISSN - 0014-3022
DOI - 10.1159/000360620
Subject(s) - spinal cord , medicine , placebo , anesthesia , surgery , psychiatry , pathology , alternative medicine
Suspension therapy was developed by a Russian doctor, A. Motschutkovsky and at the end of the 19th century it was a popular treatment for tabes dorsalis. It was endorsed by Jean-Martin Charcot in France and Weir Mitchell in the United States; but after 10 years, it was abandoned because it proved to be useless and some patients developed paralysis.
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