Spasticity is a condition in which muscles become stiff and tight from contracting for long periods. It's usually caused by conditions that affect the central nervous system, which is responsible ...

Spasticity most often develops in upper motor neuron types of injuries. It is a motor disorder defined as velocity dependent, increased resistance to passive muscle stretch. It is an exaggeration of ...

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.

Three medications have spasticity reduction as their primary indication: baclofen (Lioresal ®), dantrolene (Dantrium ®), and tizanidine (Zanaflex ®). These drugs represent the mainstays of ...

Life-changing events may bring immense challenges such as spasticity, a complication of certain neurological conditions that can greatly interfere with your everyday life. At Craig H. Neilsen ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System provides this website as an auxiliary resource for the primary care of patients with spinal cord injury.The contents of this ...

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, Norfolk, UK Spasticity can be defined as a velocity-dependent resistance to passive movement of a joint and ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is marked by fasciculation, spasticity and progressive weakness of muscles, and results in difficulty speaking ...

The debate over legalizing medical marijuana centers squarely on the definition of a Schedule I drug and whether cannabis should still ... Smoked marijuana provides relief of spasticity, pain, and ...

You know, like many folks, for a long time, I was pretty skeptical about the medical benefits of cannabis. Yeah, I knew it had been talked about for a while. It was touted as this sort of wonder ...