Model System researchers determine that medication is not as effective as physical therapeutic interventions, and identify promising approaches to alleviate symptoms of spasticity after spinal cord ...

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 ...

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord is a promising strategy for reestablishing walking after spinal cord injury, recent studies show. But for patients suffering from muscle spasms, the ...

A new consensus guideline on the assessment and management of spasticity has been released. The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R) guidance includes best practices, ...

Imagine contracting a muscle as hard as you could for 10, maybe 20 hours a day. Think of how tiring and painful that would be. That is exactly what life is like for thousands of children who have ...

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 ...

When you’re dealing with the kind of pain that comes with spasticity—a condition that produces abnormal muscle tightness and affects more than 12 million people worldwide—it can be tempting to stay in ...

Boston Children's Hospital has received $8.1M in NIH funding to support and expand the Spastic Paraplegia Centers of ...

Dec. 5 -- FRIDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer patients, glaucoma patients and others can benefit from medical marijuana, and now a new analysis shows that it can help multiple sclerosis (MS) ...

Three new qualifying medical marijuana conditions were approved Wednesday, bringing the list to 25. The Ohio State Medical Board approved Huntington's disease, terminal illness and spasticity to the ...