Electro-diagnostics on the healthy body. Part 2, head and trunk.

Electrodiagnostics on the healthy body

Berlin, [1930]

1 film reel (16 min.) : silent, black and white ; 16 mm.

Title from opening credits.

"This film is from the B.M.A. Film Library"--From opening credits.

Original cinefilm version has slightly longer duration than digitised version.

Produced by Dr. Erwin Straus and Berlin University.

Segment 1. Electrodes are used to stimulate various muscles of a subject using Faradic and Galvanic currents alternately. The following muscles are stimulated: facial nerve - trunk, facial nerve - superior branch, frontal nerve, musc. orbicularis oculi, musc. corrugator supercilii, musc. orbicularis oculi, musc. zygomaticus, musc. orbicularis oris and facial nerve - inferior branch. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:04:17:20 Length: 00:04:17:20

Segment 2. The following muscles are stimulated: musc. mentalis and quadratus menti, musc. triangularis menti, masseter muscle crossed by facial nerve, temporal muscle, muscles of the tongue, spinal accessory nerve, sternocleidomastoid muscle, dorsal scapular nerve, trapezius muscle, musc. levator anguli scapulae, musc. infraspinatus, musc. teres major and musc. latissimus dorsi. Time start: 00:04:17:20 Time end: 00:10:09:22 Length: 00:05:52:02

Segment 3. The following muscles are stimulated: erecting muscles of dorsum, musc. gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, pectoralis major, musc. rectus abdominis, musc. obliquus internus, musc. obliquus externus and musc. serratus anterior. Time start: 00:10:09:22 Time end: 00:14:26:05 Length: 00:04:16:08

British Medical Association.