STUDY DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional study. OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between spasticity and bone mineral density in the lower extremities in individuals with a motor complete spinal cord injury. METHODS Eighteen individuals, matched for time since injury, gender, and age, were included in the study. Nine men had severe spasticity, and 9 men had spasticity that was either mi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate intrinsic viscoelastic changes using shear wave velocities (SWVs) of spastic lower extremity muscles in patients with early spinal cord injury (SCI) via acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging and to evaluate correlation between the SWV values and spasticity. METHODS Eighteen patients with SCI within 3 months and 10 healthy adults participated. We applied the ...

BACKGROUND Spasticity is a common and debilitating symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS). Current treatments are effective, but may be difficult to tolerate for many patients. OBJECTIVE To determine if levetiracetam, a second-generation antiepileptic drug, may be useful for the treatment of spasticity in MS. METHODS A retrospective medical record review of patients attending the Multiple Scler...

Spasticity is the most common motor disturbance in cerebral palsy (CP). Lockdown COVID-19 outbreak has profoundly changed daily routines, and similarly caused suspension of spasticity treatment plans. Besides, delay botulinum toxin (BoNT) injection, which important management focal spasticity, led to some problems children. This consensus report includes BoNT injection recommendations during pa...

BACKGROUND Spasticity following a stroke occurs in about 30% of patients. The mechanisms underlying this disorder, however, are not well understood. METHOD This review aims to define spasticity, describe hypotheses explaining its development after a stroke, give an overview of related neuroimaging studies as well as a description of the most common scales used to quantify the degree of spasti...

Spasticity, resulting in involuntary and sustained contractions of muscles, may evolve in patients with stroke, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, brain injury, and spinal cord injury (SCI). The authors critically review the neural mechanisms that may contribute to spasticity after SCI and assess their likely degree of involvement and relative significance to its pathophysiology. Experimental ...

ersity. P ed.2012. Abstract Spasticity is a wide spectrum disease that affects all age groups. Spasticity in children may have diverse etiologies; this article will focus on children with spasticity, most of whom have diagnoses of cerebral palsy; as approximately two thirds of all cerebral palsy patients suffer from spasticity. This review is meant to discuss various aspects of spasticity; nome...

Animal models of spasticity and pain have allowed for the elucidation of possible mechanisms and the evaluation of potential therapeutic interventions for these serious clinical problems. Each model mirrors the clinical appearance of many features of the syndrome, but few reproduce the myriad patient reports of either intensity or relevant contributing factors, especially in models of chronic n...

The effect of functional electrical stimulation (FES) training on body composition, assessed by computed tomography, and the effect of spasticity, assessed by both objective and subjective measures, are evaluated. Fifteen motor-complete spinal-cord-injured men participated in the study. Eight of the 15 subjects undertook FES cycling 3 times weekly for 6 months. Whole body computed tomography sc...