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Spasticity-assessment: a review [PDF]
Spinal Cord, 2006 Review of the literature on the validity and reliability of assessment of spasticity and spasms.Evaluate the most frequently used methods for assessment of spasticity and spasms, with particular focus on individuals with spinal cord lesions.Clinic for Spinal Cord Injuries, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, and Department of Medical ...
Biering-Sorensen, F. +2 more
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Challenges of instrumented spasticity assessment [PDF]
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2013 This commentary is on the original article by Willerslev‐Olsen et al. on pages 617–623 of this issue.
K. Desloovere, L. Bar-On
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Applying Stretch to Evoke Hyperreflexia in Spasticity Testing: Velocity vs. Acceleration
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 In neurological diseases, muscles often become hyper-resistant to stretch due to hyperreflexia, an exaggerated stretch reflex response that is considered to primarily depend on the muscle's stretch velocity.
Lizeth H. Sloot +11 more
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Recent State of Wearable IMU Sensors Use in People Living with Spasticity: A Systematic Review
Sensors, 2022 Spasticity is a disabling characteristic of neurological disorders, described by a velocity-dependent increase in muscle tone during passive stretch. During the last few years, many studies have been carried out to assess spasticity using wearable IMU ...
Yehuda Weizman +4 more
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Quantitative Evaluation of Post-stroke Spasticity Using Neurophysiological and Radiological Tools: A Pilot Study [PDF]
Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2018 Objective To determine the possibility of a new measurement tool using electromyography and ultrasonography for quantitative spasticity assessment in post-stroke patients.
Mi Jin Hong +7 more
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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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Sensors, 2022 Ankle spasticity is clinically assessed using goniometry to measure the angle of muscle reaction during the Modified Tardieu Scale (MTS). The precision of the goniometric method is questionable as the measured angle may not represent when the spastic ...
Megan Banky +3 more
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Comprehensive Curriculum on Spasticity Assessment and Management
The Journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2022 ToxNET is a global educational initiative that aims to improve the quality of care for people with spasticity. The ToxNET group comprises 19 neurological rehabilitation specialists (clinicians and scientists) with a combined experience of more than 250 years in treating poststroke spasticity.
Deltombe, Thierry, Francisco, Gerard E.
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Treatments for spasticity and pain in multiple sclerosis: a systematic review [PDF]
, 2003 Objectives: To identify the drug treatments currently available for the management of spasticity and pain in multiple sclerosis (MS), and to evaluate their clinical and cost-effectiveness.
Beard, S.M., Hunn, A., Wight, J.
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Reinforced Feedback in Virtual Environment for Plantar Flexor Poststroke Spasticity Reduction and Gait Function Improvement [PDF]
, 2019 Background. Ankle spasticity is a frequent phenomenon that limits functionality in poststroke patients. Objectives. Our aim was to determine if there was decreased spasticity in the ankle plantar flex (PF) muscles in the plegic lower extremity (LE) and ...
Agostini, Michela +7 more
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