Abstract
In paraplegics sweating was evaluated both above and below a lesion of the spinal cord. Sweating was measured on the forearm and thigh during both thermal stress or repeated injections of methacholine. The results were as follows: (1) Three traumatic paraplegics did not sweat in response to the thermal stress in decentralized areas. (2) Two post-polio subjects responded to thermal stress on both the arm and leg. (3) Six of seven subjects tested showed training on both the arm and leg. Examples of increased sweating due to recruitment, enhancement, and to a combination of these two processes were observed. (4) The predominant process (i.e. recruitment or enhancement) contributing to the increased sweating response during training was the same on the arm and leg of a given individual even in instances where the leg did not respond to thermal stress.
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