May 9, 2008 – Three new guidelines documents from the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) review the use of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) in ...

After a stroke, your body often no longer behaves as it did before. Often, people experience spastic movement disorders. That can mean This means that the muscles suddenly cramp or stiffen, they are ...

Note: This story originally appeared on TODAY.com. For three decades Jean Abbott thought her spastic movements and difficulties walking were caused by cerebral palsy. But then she met an insightful ...

Study Design: Comparison of spinal lesion subjects and normal subjects. Objective: To investigate the effects of a paravertebral repetitive magnetic stimulation on spastic tone increase of the lower ...

At just 4 years old, Maya Tisdale of Michigan has gone through quite a journey. She was born four months early and had to stay at the ICU for 26 weeks. Just before she turned 2 years old, she was ...

Kinematic characteristics of reaching movements of the dominant arm were assessed in 51 sitting preterm children who were aged 2–11 y and had cerebral palsy (CP), including 33 with spastic hemiplegia ...

Spasticity is a condition that affects your muscles, making them tight or stiff. This can impact your ability to perform daily activities, such as walking, eating, and talking. The condition may also ...

Spasticity is a condition involving an involuntary increase in muscle tone that leads to resistance against normal movements of the body and may cause pain in some individuals. This condition is ...

It’s the most common neurological disorder in children and affects about 3.1 for every 1,000 8-year old children, according to a 2014 study. Symptoms of CP vary in severity, but they usually come on ...