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Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

rigidità antalgica

English translation:

antalgic stiffness

Added to glossary by Joseph Tein
May 16, 2009 02:39
15 yrs ago
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Italian term

rigidità antalgica

Italian to English Medical Medical (general) Orthopedics
This term appears in an article about the muscle-relaxant medication MuscoRil. It describes how the medication's effectiveness was tested -- which variables were considered.

" ... per la valutazione dell'efficacia terapeutica ... l'intensita' della resistenza ai movimenti passivi, *rigidita' antalgica*, contrattura muscolare e ... ".

"Rigidita' antalgica" has to do with deliberate contraction or holding in order to minimize pain: "...Il rachide cervicale risponde al trauma con una *rigidità antalgica*, la muscolatura si contrae per ridurre le sollecitazioni sul segmento leso ... ". Given this, what is the appropriate English (US) medical term for this?

Thank you all again.
Proposed translations (English)
3 antalgic stiffness
5 painful rigidity
4 reflex spasm
3 antalgic rigidity
Change log

May 16, 2009 09:33: Emanuela Galdelli changed "Term asked" from "rigidita\' antalgica" to "rigidità antalgica"

Discussion

Joseph Tein (asker) May 25, 2009:
antalgic I ended up using this direct (almost) translation because I find this word used, although not very frequently, in other phrases such as "antalgic gait" and "antalgic posture" and therefore I think it will be understood by professionals who read this paper.

Proposed translations

15 hrs
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antalgic stiffness

In case of symptoms for autoimmune diseases or pain in general I often found 'stiffness'. Actually in this context I would not be 100% sure, because stiffness is a sign of the disease and maybe it is more related to joints rather than to muscles... By the way please find following a hit as well if it might be of help:

http://thejns.org/doi/abs/10.3171/jns.1960.17.3.0418
Peer comment(s):
neutral Mirra_ : when a medical term results being used only three times I wouldn' dare to suggest it... Così eh... :) http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&safe=off&num=30&q="antalgi...
9 days
I shared my experience, stressing I was not 100% sure and giving my reasons for that :) - Few days ago I was told off to be too sure...
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2 hrs
Italian term (edited): rigidita' antalgica

antalgic rigidity

www.jarcet.com/articles/Vol8Iss3/226-232_SartiniVol8No3.pdf
This can be the translation. Simple.
Note from asker:
Shalom Gad. I haven't seen you in a very long time!
A comment now on this answer: I do find this term in a small number of online references, but some of them are translations again from Italian, and some of them from India, and I don't find any references from the U.S. or U.K. So I'm still wondering if there is a more common medical term for this in the mainstream English-speaking world.
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4 hrs
Italian term (edited): rigidita' antalgica

reflex spasm

http://books.google.lu/books?id=WN98dMVMfFcC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA7...

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Note added at 5 hrs (2009-05-16 08:36:12 GMT)
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See also "antalgia" in the link above and here:
http://books.google.lu/books?id=mLMLFOlua3YC&pg=RA1-PA346&lp...

but I think "reflex spasm" is more frequent and understandable.
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11 hrs

painful rigidity

http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&safe=off&num=30&q="painful...

and particulartly this (with many examples close to your text)
http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&safe=off&num=30&q=symptoms...

examples (for brevity I do not include the URLs but they all come from the last link)

An 81-year-old woman was referred for evaluation of painful rigidity and spasms of the torso and proximal limb musculature.

However, paraneoplastic forms are more common among patients with stiff-limb syndrome [3, 11 and 13], which manifests as painful rigidity of the trunk

It is a complex progressive illness dominated by painful rigidity and spasms.

Corticobasal degeneration often starts as painful rigidity in the foot and may show reflex and action induced spasm and jerks.

Patients may also experience abnormal postures of their limbs or neck (dystonia), painful rigidity, muscle spasms, and eventually

...

and so on :)



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Note added at 13 hrs (2009-05-16 16:08:18 GMT)
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rigidità antalgica (ridotta motilità del tronco a causa del dolore)
http://it.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2008102401412...

anyway

perhaps



* painful stiffness *


would be more precise.

Before I did not suggested it because I thought that 'rigidity' was more medical. But I re-thought about it, check some links and yes I guess that stiffness is more correct :)

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Note added at 13 hrs (2009-05-16 16:10:23 GMT)
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http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&safe=off&num=30&q="painful...
Peer comment(s):
neutral SJLD : well no, cara, antalgia means "against pain" - the spasm/rigidity is a reaction to pain, it's not painful in itself
1 hr
eheheh I knew someone (mainly you) would have advanced this seemingly reasonable objection, but actually they are the same thing! (in this case, egg and chicken are born at the same time ;)) You would be right if we were dealing with 'irrigidimento antal
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