Spastic cerebral palsy is a disorder that involves muscle stiffness. Symptoms and signs may include difficulty walking, trouble manipulating objects, and vision, hearing, or speech challenges.

Spasticity is a symptom or complication of many different neurological disorders in which normal muscle movement patterns are disrupted, and muscles contract, or tighten, involuntarily. In a healthy ...

Spastic diplegia cerebral palsy (SDCP) is a form of cerebral palsy that causes muscle stiffness and spasms in a person’s legs and, sometimes, arms. This is due to damage to the motor cortex of the ...

Botulinum toxin is an established antispastic treatment for children with cerebral palsy (CP), but its effect on adductor spasticity—an important risk factor for hip dislocation—has not been ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - When you hear the word "Botox," you probably think of a cosmetic procedure to reduce wrinkles. You may be surprised to know that Botox has some very serious medical uses, too.

The study used 2016-2020 information from the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS), an administrative database that includes more than 49 children's hospitals. The authors stratified study ...

This Practice Point commentary discusses a recent paper by Hoving et al., who compared the cost-effectiveness of continuous intrathecal baclofen infusion (CIBI) with that of 'standard care' in ...

If you have spasticity, whether following a stroke or traumatic brain injury or due to a progressive disease such as multiple sclerosis (MS), your muscles remain contracted, or tightened, in one ...

There are many prescription and over-the-counter medications available that can provide relief for muscle spasms and muscle spasticity. Muscle relaxers, or muscle relaxants, are medications used to ...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a lifelong congenital condition that causes palsy, or impaired movements, due to brain damage at a very young age. Spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy (SQCP) is a severe type ...