Spasticity

CINDY IVANHOE, MD: Spasticity is the increased resistance to stretch or movement that you can feel across joints. And it happens when there's been an injury to the central nervous system, whether it's a stroke or spinal cord injury or whatever.
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Spasticity
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Spasticity - Muscle tightness and spasms can be disabling for MS patients with spinal cord damage. These symptoms can be improved with medications such as baclofen (Lioresal), diazepam (Valium) and dantrolene (Dantrium).
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SpasticityIncreased mucle tone, or stiffness, which leads to uncontrolled, awkward movements.
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The spasticity can also affect the arms as well as the legs, resulting in spastic paraplegia. The mental retardation is significant. Most of the patients never walk. About half the patients have seizures.
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Children with severe spasticity who haven't responded to oral medications may also benefit from surgical procedures.
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Medications may include muscle relaxants to reduce tremors and spasticity, and anticonvulsants to prevent or reduce the frequency of seizures.
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spastic hemiplegia ("hemi" means half) - spasticity affecting one half, or side, of the body (such as right arm and right leg).
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Drugs can be given to reduce muscle spasticity and muscle hyperactivity. Physiotherapy is the bedrock of CP management and helps with posture and movement, and tries to prevent progression of disability.
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Zanaflex (tizanidine HCl) For the management of increased muscle tone associated with spasticity, a condition affecting the central nervous system (in patients with spinal cord injury or multiple sclerosis, for example).
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Muscle spasticity
Permanent loss of cognitive or other brain functions (dementia)
Disruption of communication, decreased social interaction
Decreased ability to function or care for self
Decreased life span ...
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Cerebral palsy may involve muscle stiffness (spasticity), poor muscle tone, uncontrolled movements, and problems with posture, balance, coordination, walking, speech, swallowing, and many other functions.
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This may produce symptoms of weakness and spasticity, loss of sensation or of one's sense of position in space, and incontinence. As strange as it may seem, neck and radiating nerve pain is unusual in these cases.
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The problem with controlling body movements is sometimes called spasticity.
How is it diagnosed?
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Baclofen
This drug is generally used for spasticity but may also be used for the treatment of neuropathic pain.[178,179,181] Side effects include drowsiness, dizziness, ataxia, confusion, and nausea and vomiting.
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So, when neurons stop sending signals to muscles, the muscles atrophy, which means they weaken and shrink. This may progress to paralysis. Spasticity is increased muscle tone that can make it hard to coordinate movement, ...
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Have had a stroke and notice that your affected arm or leg is becoming increasingly stiff or you are not able to straighten it (spasticity).
Have had a stroke and notice signs of a urinary tract infection.
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