including conditions that are congenital (e.g., cerebral palsy), acquired (traumatic brain injury), static (stroke), and progressive (multiple sclerosis). Spasticity results in involuntary ...

MS is associated with symptoms and comorbidities including mobility, gait, spasticity, dexterity and cognition. Unfortunately, the tools available to assess patients are subjective, qualitative ...

Symptoms: Many people with MS have problems with spasticity in the lower limbs, either as a sustained stiffness or as spasms that come and go, especially at night. Pain, weakness, fatigue and loss ...

Spasticity is a symptom of conditions, like multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, stroke, and traumatic injury to the brain or spinal cord. It can look like a tightly folded arm with a flexed wrist ...

What spasticity is, is an abnormally contracted or overtight muscle. So the muscle is like this. It's like a little ball that doesn't want to be stretched. And so that's why you have stiffness.

MS frequently results in impaired movement largely because of spasticity, difficulties with balance and coordination, tremor, and weakness. Every symptom that affects mobility has the potential to ...

Learning how to label your symptoms can help you better manage your MS. Here’s how to get started. Receiving a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) is hard enough, but learning a whole new ...

Clinical trials have shown that cannabinoids, chemical compounds like THC and CBD found in the cannabis plant, modestly improve patient-reported spasticity and pain in people with MS. Evidence ...

More work is needed on interventions that help with symptoms such as spasticity and ataxia, as well as on different ways of working such as the role of technology in supporting people with MS.

vertigo, paralysis, facial pain, memory loss, depression and difficulty in concentrating and problem solving. MS patients may also experience spasticity, a decreased ability to control movement.

As it turns out, cannabis has been found to be beneficial in relieving muscle spasticity in people with multiple sclerosis.

Fatigue is one of the most common and disabling symptoms of multiple sclerosis Fatigue in multiple sclerosis (MS) is the depletion of physical and/or mental energy that interferes with usual or ...