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Journal of Central Nervous System Disease, 2021 Stroke patients with spasticity usually require long-lasting care and interventions but frequently report that outpatient and community treatment is limited, reflecting a significant unmet need in health and social care provision.
Ganesh Bavikatte +4 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2019 Objective: This longitudinal observational study investigated how neural stretch-resistance in wrist and finger flexors develops after stroke and relates to motor recovery, secondary complications, and lesion location.Methods: Sixty-one patients were ...
Jeanette Plantin +11 more
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Which brain lesions produce spasticity? An observational study on 45 stroke patients.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Spasticity is an important barrier that can hinder the restoration of function in stroke patients. Although several studies have attempted to elucidate the relationship between brain lesions and spasticity, the effects of specific brain lesions on the ...
Kyoung Bo Lee +8 more
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Acta Orthopaedica, 2019 Background and purpose — Spasticity is often regarded as a major cause of functional limitation in children with cerebral palsy (CP). We analyzed the spasticity development with age in the gastrosoleus muscle in children with CP.
Olof Lindén +3 more
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Prevalence and Risk Factors for Spasticity After Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Background: Spasticity is a common sequela of stroke. The incidence of poststroke spasticity (PSS) has not been systematically reviewed in recent years, and some risk factors remain debated.
Huangling Zeng +3 more
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Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 2021 The relationship of poststroke spasticity and motor recovery can be confusing. “True” motor recovery refers to return of motor behaviors to prestroke state with the same end-effectors and temporo-spatial pattern. This requires neural recovery and repair,
Sheng Li, G. Francisco, W. Rymer
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Prediction of functional outcome after spinal cord injury: a task for the rehabilitation team and the patient [PDF]
, 2000 Study design: Descriptive analysis of data gathered in an information system.Objectives: To explore the predictions of professionals and patients regarding functional outcome after spinal cord injury related to the final results after inpatient ...
Eisma, W.H. +3 more
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Toxins, 2021 Ultrasound (US)-guided botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) injections are becoming a mainstay in the treatment of muscle spasticity in upper motor neuron syndromes.
Philippe Lagnau +12 more
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Effects of electrical stimulation on spinal spasticity.
Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2020 Seven spinal cord injured (SCI) patients with clinical signs of knee-joint spasticity were tested with the Wartenberg pendulum test and an electrogoniometer.
L. Vodovnik, Bowman Br, P. Hufford
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Ankle and Foot Spasticity Patterns in Chronic Stroke Survivors with Abnormal Gait
Toxins, 2020 Chronic stroke survivors with spastic hemiplegia have various clinical presentations of ankle and foot muscle spasticity patterns. They are mechanical consequences of interactions between spasticity and weakness of surrounding muscles during walking ...
Sheng Li
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