After a stroke, your body often no longer behaves as it did before. Often, people experience spastic movement disorders. That ...

1 Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC 2 Department of Neurology, National Cheng Kung University and Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience & ...

Therefore, the lower limb spasticity score at SLC was defined as a weighted average of up to five different bilateral spasticity measures: (1) mean modified Ashworth scores for at least three ...

Muscle spasticity, a common symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS), can make everyday movements feel stiff, tight, and painful. Stretching is one way to help reduce some of that discomfort, improve ...

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 ...

Spasticity is a condition that causes your muscles to stiffen, tighten, and contract. It happens involuntarily, which means you don’t have control over it. Spasticity typically happens because of ...

Spasticity symptoms like stiff, rigid muscles generally aren’t hard for your doctor to miss. But it’s important to rule out anything else so they can tailor the right treatment plan for you. They’ll ...

HOUSTON – Almost half of stroke survivors can experience spasticity, meaning their muscles get tighter and tighter until they lose the ability to move. RELATED: How one program is helping brain trauma ...

Researchers have made a significant advancement in the field of spinal cord injury research, developing a novel optogenetic mouse model that could lead to improved treatments for limb spasticity.

Thanks to new high-frequency electrical stimulation that blocks spasticity, two paralyzed patients suffering from muscle stiffness after spinal cord injury benefit from rehabilitation protocols for ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...