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Movement Disorders in Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies

Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Monogenic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE) frequently feature co‐occurring movement disorders. Gene discovery has expanded epilepsy‐dyskinesia syndromes (EDS) from classic associations such as stereotypies in Rett syndrome to PRRT2‐related infantile seizures with paroxysmal dyskinesia and crouched gait in SCN1A ...
Shekeeb Mohammad, Darius Ebrahimi‐Fakhari, Hugo Morales‐Briceno   +2 more
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Immediate Effect of Sensory Level Stimulation on Spasticity in Patients with Post-stroke Hemiplegia

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2017
Background: Spasticity is one of the impairments in patients with stroke which cause more disability and secondary problems. Now, there are some ways to reduce spasticity such as drugs, exercise, heat, massage, and sensory level electrical stimulation ...
Mahdi Afshar-Safavi, Mehdi Dadgoo, Javad Sarrafzadeh   +2 more
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Phenotypic Exploration in Patients with Heterozygous Variant in AFG3L2 Gene: A Case‐Series and Literature Review

Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Variants in AFG3‐Like Matrix AAA Peptidase, Subunit 2 (AFG3L2) gene are associated with diverse clinical phenotypes. Here, we describe phenotypic findings of two unrelated children with de novo heterozygous variant and one family with inherited heterozygous variant in AFG3L2 gene.
Sangeetha Yoganathan, Laura Tochen, Jacky Ganguly, Sayoni Roy Chowdhury, Haya S AlFaris, Vivek Pai, Andrea LeBlanc‐Millar, Sara Breitbart, Hrishikesh Kumar, Manohar Shroff, Arun Reginald, Grace Yoon, Alfonso Fasano, George M Ibrahim, Carolina Gorodetsky   +14 more
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Spasticity: A review of Methods for Assessment and Treatment

Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, 2011
Spasticity is the condition resulting of corticispinal damage as occurs in some neurological diseases. The aim of the article is to review the literature on assessment and treatment of spasticity and spastic limbs.
Mohammad Amouzadeh Khalili, Masoumeh Rasulzadeh   +1 more
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Is upper-limb sensorimotor function or spasticity the best predictor for spasticity one year poststroke?

, 2015
: Background: Clinical assessments of body functions are an important part of physiotherapy practice poststroke. These assessments are used to plan treatments, and may be used to indicate future function.
Alt Murphy, Margit,, Opheim, Arve,, Danielsson, Anna,, Stibrant Sunnerhagen, Katharina,, Persson, Hanna C,   +4 more
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Clinical Outcome Assessments for Functional Performance in Spastic Paresis: Systematic Review, Critique, and Recommendations

Movement Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Spastic paresis, resulting from central nervous system lesions, significantly impairs functional performance. In the framework of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health, functional performance was defined as functioning at the activity level in relation to the impairment of body functions and ...
Martina Hoskovcova, Marjolaine Baude, Bo Biering‐Sørensen, Ota Gal, Mary P Galea, Jean‐Michel Gracies, Carmen Rodriguez‐Blazquez, Theodore Wein, Michelle Hyczy de Siqueira Tosin, Álvaro Sánchez‐Ferro, Tiago A Mestre, Matej Skorvanek, Robert Jech, The members of the MDS Clinical Outcome Assessments Scientific Evaluation Committee and MDS Spasticity Study Group   +13 more
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Treatment of spasticity [PDF]

Spinal Cord, 2002
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Surgical management of spasticity

, 2016
The management of patients with cerebral palsy and other causes of spasticity is a challenge to an entire rehabilitation team and to caregivers. In South Africa,  neurosurgeons have had limited involvement in this field owing to a perceived lack of ...
Fieggen, AG, Enslin, JMN
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Evaluation of spasticity

There is no generally accepted definition of spasticity, but hyperexcitable stretch reflexes, exaggerated tendon jerks, clonus, spasms, cramps, increased resistance to passive joint movement, sustained involuntary muscle activity and aberrant muscle ...
Therkildsen, Eva Rudjord, Lorentzen, Jakob, Perez, Monica A., Nielsen, Jens Bo   +3 more
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Early and Progressive Spinal Cord Atrophy in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1

Movement Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is a rare, autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive cerebellar and brainstem degeneration. Previous studies have shown that spinal cord atrophy is also a key aspect of SCA1 neuropathology.
Colette J.M. Reniers, Teije H. van Prooije, Kirsten C.J. Kapteijns, Jack J.A. van Asten, Caterina Mariotti, Lidia Sarro, Anna Nigri, Marina Grisoli, Giulia Coarelli, Alexandra Durr, Tom Scheenen, Bart van de Warrenburg   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source