Upper Limb Spasticity: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment - WebMD
网页2023年5月12日 — Upper limb spasticity is a condition that affects the way you move your arms. It makes your muscles stiff and flexed. Sometimes, your arms will twitch or move in a way...
Spasticity: What It Is, Causes, Symptoms & Treatment - Cleveland Clinic
网页2022年7月23日 — 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. It interferes with movement and can also affect your speech and gait (walk).
Dystonia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
网页2024年6月11日 — Dystonia affects different people in different ways. Muscle spasms might: Begin in a single area, such as your leg, neck or arm. Focal dystonia that begins after age 21 usually starts in the neck, arm or face. Although it tends to remain in the single area, it may spread to a neighboring area of the body.
Best Exercises To Reduce Spasticity - Cleveland Clinic Health …
网页2022年6月23日 — Spasticity is a common side effect of certain neurological conditions. Here’s what exercises and stretching approaches experts recommend for spasticity management.
What Is Spasticity? Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment
网页2024年3月2日 — While spasticity most commonly affects the leg muscles, it can also occur in the arms, neck, torso, or trunk. Some people with spasticity only have mild pain and stiffness, while others have...
Spasticity Management - Overview - Mayo Clinic
网页2024年7月24日 — Spasticity may cause discomfort, difficulty with movement, and bone and joint deformity. Spasticity in the arms — it usually happens in the muscles that pull the arm toward the body and bend the elbow, wrist and fingers. Spasticity in the legs — it usually happens in the muscles that turn the hip in, extend the knee, and pull the foot down ...
Muscle spasticity: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments - Healthline
网页2019年9月6日 — Muscle spasticity is a condition that causes muscles in your limbs and throughout your body to stiffen. They can become so rigid that it’s nearly impossible to move...
Spasticity - Johns Hopkins Medicine
网页Spasticity is abnormal muscle tightness due to prolonged muscle contraction. It is a symptom associated with damage to the brain, spinal cord or motor nerves, and is seen in individuals with neurological conditions, such as:
Spasticity - Physiopedia
网页'Spasticity is a motor disorder characterised by a velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes (muscle tone) with exaggerated tendon jerks, resulting from hyperexcitability of the stretch reflex, as one component of the upper motor neurone syndrome' More recently, a definition from Pandyan et al (2005) [6] states that spasticity is:
Spasticity – Symptoms and Causes - Penn Medicine
网页Spasticity is often caused by damage to the part of the brain that is involved in movements under your control. It may also occur from damage to the nerves in the spinal cord. Symptoms of spasticity include: Abnormal posture; Carrying the shoulder, arm, wrist, and finger at an abnormal angle because of muscle tightness