BACKGROUND The development of spasticity with age in children with cerebral palsy (CP) has, to our knowledge, not been studied before. In 1994, a register and a health care program for children with CP in southern Sweden were initiated. In the programme the child's muscle tone according to the modified Ashworth scale is measured twice a year until six years of age, then once a year. We have use...

Background: The development of spasticity with age in children with cerebral palsy (CP) has, to our knowledge, not been studied before. In 1994, a register and a health care program for children with CP in southern Sweden were initiated. In the programme the child's muscle tone according to the modified Ashworth scale is measured twice a year until six years of age, then once a year. We have us...

Objective: To investigate the impact of BOTOX, along with task-specific training, on focal hand dystonia in post-stroke patients and to determine correlation between quality life motor outcomes upper extremity dystonic patients. Methodology: A quasi-experimental involving 20 patients, study was conducted at Holy Family Hospital (HFH), Chambeli Institute Rehabilitation Rawalpindi, Neurocounsel C...

This article examines the nature, uses, and limitations of the large variety of existing, so-called, hypnosis scales; that is, instruments that have been proposed for the assessment of hypnotic behavior. Although the major aim of most of the scales ostensively seems to be to assess several aspects of hypnotic states, they are found generally to say little about these and much more about respons...

Wellcome Centre for Infection, Immunity and Evolution, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Building, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0QB, UK Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Jarrett Bui...

ELIZABETH A. SHEPHARD,* IAN R. PHILLIPS,? ALAN ASHWORTH,* JACQUELINE S. FERRIE,* LESLEY A. FORREST,* DAVID R. BELL? STEPHANIE THOMPSON? and CAROLINE A. AUSTIN* * Department of Biochemistry, University College London, Cower Street, London W C I E 6 B T , U . K . and ?Department of Biochemistry, St . Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, Universify of London, Charterhouse Square, London ECIM 6 ...

Labour has called for the appointment process of new chief executive NHS England to be transparent, based on merit, and without undue political influence. In a letter sent cabinet secretary Simon Case 19 June, Labour’s shadow health minister Jonathan Ashworth also “free from cronyism that existed over past year.” “This is matter utmost importance both patients …

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of tizanidine (an alpha(2) noradrenergic agonist) on transmission in the interneuronal pathway coactivated by group I and group II afferents in post-stroke patients with spastic hemiplegia. METHODS Early and late facilitation of the quadriceps H reflex elicited in the common peroneal nerve--attributed to non-monosynaptic group I and group II excitation, res...

BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis is associated with muscle stiffness, spasms, pain, and tremor. Much anecdotal evidence suggests that cannabinoids could help these symptoms. Our aim was to test the notion that cannabinoids have a beneficial effect on spasticity and other symptoms related to multiple sclerosis. METHODS We did a randomised, placebo-controlled trial, to which we enrolled 667 patien...