Upper limb spasticity is common after stroke and can cause deformity ... When given by intramuscular injection it causes temporary local paresis and has become an important component of focal ...

Antispastic drugs can accentuate paresis and therefore should be applied with caution in mobile patients. Spasticity is a well known syndrome, most commonly arising after stroke, multiple sclerosis, ...

Correspondence to: Dr E Reid Department of Medical Genetics, Box 134, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ, UK; ereidhgmp.mrc.ac.uk We present a family in which an initial clinical diagnosis of ...

stroke, cerebral palsy, and multiple sclerosis. It is also the dominant feature in several rarer conditions such as tropical and hereditary spastic paraparesis. The fact that it is relevant to many ...

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About 795,000 Americans will have a stroke this year, but new research suggests that a common, healthy habit may reduce the risk of certain types of stroke. “We aimed to determine which oral ...

Background: Spasticity is a known complication to the hemiplegic shoulder following acquired brain injury. However, there is a current discrepancy between the diagnosis of arm spasticity and the ...

The sensations that are caused by some of the most severe migraines can cause you to feel as if you’re having a stroke. Sometimes a migraine, specifically a migraine with aura (or visual disturbances) ...

Introduction The human hand is extremely involved in our daily lives. However, the rehabilitation of hand function after stroke can be rather difficult due to the complexity of hand structure and ...

Three medications have spasticity reduction as their primary ... a focal intervention such as a botulinum toxin injection might benefit a stroke patient with focal hypertonicity but would not ...