aans.org › Patients › Neurosurgical-Conditions-and-Treatments › Spasticity

Spasticity is generally caused by damage or disruption to the area of the brain and spinal cord that are responsible for controlling muscle and stretch reflexes. These disruptions can be…

en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Spasticity

Spasticity (from Greek spasmos- 'drawing, pulling') is a feature of altered skeletal muscle performance with a combination of paralysis, increased tendon reflex activity, and hypertonia. It is also colloquially referred…

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hopkinsmedicine.org › health › conditions-and-diseases › spasticity

What is spasticity? Spasticity is abnormal muscle tightness due to prolonged muscle contraction. It is a symptom associated with damage to the brain, spinal cord or motor nerves, and is…

my.clevelandclinic.org › health › diseases › 14346

Spasticity is a disruption in muscle movement patterns that causes certain muscles to contract all at once when you try to move or even at rest. The muscles remain contracted…

physio-pedia.com › Spasticity

'Spasticity is a motor disorder characterised by a velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes (muscle tone) with exaggerated tendon jerks, resulting from hyperexcitability of the stretch reflex, as one component…

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › 29939646

Spasticity is a motor disorder marked by a velocity-dependent increase in muscle tone or tonic stretch reflexes associated with hypertonia. Colloquially, it is often referred to as “tightness” or “stiffness.”.…

ninds.nih.gov › health-information › disorders › spasticity

What is spasticity? Spasticity is a condition in which there is an abnormal increase in muscle tone or stiffness of muscle, which might interfere with movement, speech, or be associated…

dict.leo.org › englisch-deutsch › spasticity

spasticity - strongly marked hypertonicity of muscles [MED.] die Spastizität kein Pl. spasticity - strongly marked hypertonicity of muscles [MED.] spastischer Symptomenkomplex. Werbung.

kinderneurochirurgie.charite.de › en › spasticity

Spasticity limits arbitrary movement of the legs and thus impairs the strengthening of the leg muscles. The legs thus not only become stiff, they also stay weak. With the disappearance…

researchgate.net › ... › 258565146_Strength_training_in_patients_with_spasticity

Recent findings show no effect of strength or resistance training on spasticity 1,2,6-8, at least for patients with mild motor impairment and spasticity. As reported in recent systematic reviews ...

frontiersin.org › articles › 10.3389 › fphys

Spasticity is estimated to be present in about 20–40% of stroke survivors (Zorowitz et al., 2013). Clinically, post-stroke spasticity is easily recognized as a phenomenon of velocity-dependent increase in tonic…

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Of the 64 hemiparetic patients, 18 (28%) were spastic. Ten patients were spastic in both the upper and lower extremity, 7 in the upper extremity only, and 1 in the…