- Spasticity: What It Is, Causes, Symptoms Treatment
Spasticity is a disruption in muscle movement patterns that causes certain muscles to contract all at once when you try to move or even at rest The muscles remain contracted and resist being stretched
- Spasticity - Johns Hopkins Medicine
Spasticity affects over 12 million people worldwide, including approximately 80 percent of people with cerebral palsy and 80 percent of those with multiple sclerosis Spasticity symptoms include continuous muscle stiffness, spasms and involuntary contractions, which can be painful
- Spasticity - Physiopedia
Spasticity is seen to be a positive feature of upper motor neuron syndrome This is because it is due to a loss of inhibition of the lower motor neuron pathways, rather than a loss of connection to the lower motor neuron (or other pathways)
- Spasticity | Fact Sheets - Yale Medicine
Spasticity is a condition characterized by muscle stiffness or tightness, increased muscle tone, muscle spasms, and exaggerated reflexes among other signs and symptoms It occurs when the normal balance of signals that regulate the contraction and relaxation of muscles are interrupted
- Spasticity Information Treatment
Spasticity usually occurs because of damage to the part of the brain or spinal cord that controls voluntary movement It's often the result of a spinal cord injury, a stroke, or a disease such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease)
- Spasticity Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments - WebMD
Spasticity is a muscle control disorder that is characterized by tight or stiff muscles and an inability to control those muscles
- Spasticity - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Spasticity, which is sometimes referred to as tightness or stiffness, is a motor disorder marked by a velocity-dependent increase in muscle tone or tonic stretch reflexes associated with hypertonia The presentation of spasticity is variable
- Muscle spasticity: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments - Healthline
Find out all about spasticity, which occurs when nerve impulses controlling muscle movement are interrupted or damaged
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