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A Quantitative Assessment of Knee Extensor Spasticity Using Isokinetic Dynamometer

open access: green, 2002
Duk-Hyun Sung   +7 more
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Spasticity

Current Treatment Options in Neurology, 2009
Treatment of spasticity requires a team approach, including the patient and caregivers, therapists, physicians, and surgeons. The team needs to determine what component of the spasticity interferes with function. Traditional therapy continues to dominate the therapy provided to patients who are living with spasticity.
Allison, Brashear, Kelly, Lambeth
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Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation Induces Temporary Attenuation of Spasticity in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury

Journal of Neurotrauma, 2020
Epidural spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is currently regarded as a breakthrough procedure for enabling movement after spinal cord injury (SCI), yet one of its original applications was for spinal spasticity.
U. Hofstoetter   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Spasticity

2012
Antispastic medications that are directed to reduce clinical signs of spasticity, such as exaggerated reflexes and muscle tone, do not improve the movement disorder. Medication can even increase weakness which might interfere with functional movements, such as walking.
Dietz, Volker, Sinkjaer, Thomas
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Spasticity

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1987
Spasticity has been defined as velocity-dependent hyperactivity of stretch reflexes; it is therefore only one aspect of the complex syndrome produced by a lesion of the upper motoneuron. Although spasticity may be partially responsible for joint contractures, it does not produce most of the functional disability experienced by patients with upper ...
R R, Young, A W, Wiegner
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SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1934
Spastic paraplegia is a descriptive term and not a diagnosis. Its causes are many. In the classic form it is characterized by a progressive spasticity in the lower limbs, with all the signs and symptoms of a pyramidal tract disease below the level of the lesion. The onset is described by the patient in terms of fatigability of the lower limbs.
N. W. Winkelman, John L. Eckel
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Sativex® as add-on therapy vs. further optimized first-line ANTispastics (SAVANT) in resistant multiple sclerosis spasticity: a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomised clinical trial

International Journal of Neuroscience, 2018
Purpose/aim: To evaluate the efficacy of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC):cannabidiol (CBD) oromucosal spray (Sativex®) as add-on therapy to optimised standard antispasticity treatment in patients with moderate to severe multiple sclerosis (MS) spasticity ...
J. Marková   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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