The management of spasticity in adults - The BMJ
网页2014年8月5日 · Management of spasticity requires a balanced approach, weighing the benefits of treatment against the usefulness of the spasticity. Current interventions to treat spasticity lack a robust evidence base, and guidelines often depend on expert recommendations. This review discusses the assessment and …
Spasticity Management - Overview - Mayo Clinic
网页2024年7月24日 · Spasticity management in the department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) offers focused specialty care for people with spasticity at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota. Our highly specialized physicians can help with spasticity caused by an illness or injury to the central nervous system in …
Spasticity management for spinal cord injury - Mayo Clinic
网页2024年5月4日 · Spasticity management may be important in preventing pain and stiffness from getting worse after a spinal cord injury. If spasticity continues long-term without treatment, it can lead to limited movement, making it hard to function. Treatment also helps prevent pressure sores on the skin.
A Review of Spasticity Treatments: Pharmacological and …
网页Spasticity is a velocity-dependent increase in muscle tone and uncontrolled, repetitive, involuntary contractions of skeletal muscles. Spasticity presents as upper motor neuron symptoms in patients with central nervous system pathology such as stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, or multiple sclerosis.
Spasticity - Physiopedia
网页The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) latest clinical guidelines in 2016 recommend the following for the management of spasticity: People with motor weakness after stroke should be assessed for spasticity as a cause of pain, as a factor limiting activities or care, and as a risk factor for the development of contractures.
网页Management of spasticity requires a balanced approach, weighing the benefits of treatment against the usefulness of the spasticity. Current interventions to treat spasticity lack a robust evidence base, and guidelines often depend on expert recommendations. This review discusses the assessment and treatment of spasticity in adults.
AAPM&R consensus guidance on spasticity assessment and management
网页2024年5月21日 · This consensus guidance provides clinicians with practical recommendations for spasticity assessment and management based on the best available evidence and expert opinion. Clinical judgment should be exercised, and recommendations tailored to individual patient needs, preferences, and risk profiles ….
Spasticity – Pathogenesis, prevention and treatment strategies
网页The management of spasticity is complex involving contribution from physiotherapist, orthopedician, and pain physician. Most individuals, even with quite severe spasticity, can be managed by a combination of physiotherapy and local nerve block or botulinum toxin injection, sometimes combined with relatively low dose oral medication.
Spasticity - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
网页2023年8月8日 · Spasticity is a motor disorder marked by a velocity-dependent increase in muscle tone or tonic stretch reflexes associated with hypertonia. [1] Colloquially, it is often referred to as “tightness” or “stiffness.”
Spasticity management for spinal cord injury - Mayo Clinic
网页2024年5月4日 · Specialists at Mayo Clinic's Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program provide a wide range of therapies to treat spasticity. Therapies include physical therapy programs tailored to your needs, medicine therapy and, if necessary, surgical procedures.