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Assessing Competency in Spasticity Management

American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 2012
This project endeavored to create an educational module including methodology to instruct physical medicine and rehabilitation residents in the evaluation and appropriate treatment of patients with spasticity and other sequelae of the upper motor neuron syndrome.
Steven V, Escaldi, Sara J, Cuccurullo, Matthew, Terzella, Ann Marie, Petagna, Thomas E, Strax   +4 more
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Childhood spasticity assessment

1991
Increasingly the medical community is being called upon to treat children who, having sustained an acute neurologic injury and, surviving it, are left with a fixed functional handicap.
R. Abbott, M. Johann-Murphy, S. L. Forem
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A Review of Robot-Assisted Hand Spasticity Assessment

IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
Spasticity is a common neuromuscular abnormality following upper motor neuron lesions. Conventionally, spasticity is assessed through manual clinical scales, which have limitations due to the subjectivity involved.
Hao Yu, Alyson Nelson, M. S. Erden
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Hand Exoskeleton to Assess Hand Spasticity

2020 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2020
In this paper, a prototype exoskeleton is proposed to perform active finger movements to mimic a therapist for assessment of hand spasticity. Current methods for assessing spasticity are based on the subjective appreciation of physiotherapists as there is no quantifiably standardized method of evaluation and no rigorous method to record data for ...
Mustafa Suphi Erden, William McColl, Djouzar Abassebay, Shaun Haldane   +3 more
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Manually controlled instrumented spasticity assessments

Developmental medicine and child neurology, 2014
Aim: The first aim of this study was to systematically review and critically assess manually controlled instrumented spasticity assessment methods that combine multidimensional signals. The second aim was to extract a set of quantified parameters that are psychometrically sound to assess spasticity in a clinical setting.
Bar-On, Lynn, Aertbeliën, Erwin, Molenaers, Guy, Dan, Bernard, Desloovere, Kaat   +4 more
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Assessment of Spasticity in Pediatric Patients

Operative Techniques in Neurosurgery, 2004
This article presents the four principle stages of assessment of children with cerebral palsy. The first stage is observation to obtain a global idea of the child’s function. The second stage is measurement of the range of motion to detect contractures inaccessible to neurosurgical treatment.
Isabelle Hodgkinson, Carole Bérard
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Preliminary evaluation of a robotic measurement system for the assessment of wrist joint spasticity*

International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2020
Spasticity is a serious problem that affects a large percentage of patients affected by neurological disorders including stroke, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, traumatic injury. Unfortunately, no reliable assessment method of spasticity is currently
Valeria Falzarano, Giulia Petrella, F. Marini, Michael W. R. Holmes, L. Masia, P. Morasso, J. Zenzeri   +6 more
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A comparative evaluation of telehealth and direct assessment when screening for spasticity in residents of two long-term care facilities

Clinical Rehabilitation, 2020
Objective: To evaluate the performance of telehealth as a screening tool for spasticity compared to direct patient assessment in the long-term care setting. Design: Cross-sectional, observational study.
K. Harper, E. Butler, M. Hacker, Aaditi G. Naik, B. Eoff, F. Phibbs, David Isaacs, Stephen J Gallion, Esmeralda P Thomas, Jim Scott, Shelby Ploucher, J. Meystedt, M. Mcleod, P. Charles   +13 more
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Clinical neurophysiological assessment of spasticity

1991
It is possible to approach the neurophysiological assessment of spasticity in two ways. The most straightforward and simple one is to document clinical phenomena, for example exaggerated tonic and phasic stretch reflexes. The other approach is based on description of the underlying spinal and supraspinal mechanisms of spasticity.
J. Zidar, M. R. Dimitrijević
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Clinical assessment of spasticity

1991
Spasticity and rigidity are common neurological findings in movement disorders, and share the characteristic clinical feature of increased muscle tone. In clinical neurology, spasticity is described as increased resistance to passive movement due to a lower threshold of tonic and phasic stretch reflexes (Holmes 1946).
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