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  1. Spasticity: What It Is, Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

    Spasticity is a disruption in muscle movement patterns that causes certain muscles to contract all at once when you try to move or even at rest. The muscles remain contracted and resist being …

  2. Spasticity - Johns Hopkins Medicine

    Spasticity affects over 12 million people worldwide, including approximately 80 percent of people with cerebral palsy and 80 percent of those with multiple sclerosis. Spasticity symptoms …

  3. Spasticity - Wikipedia

    Spasticity (from Greek spasmos- 'drawing, pulling') is a feature of altered skeletal muscle performance with a combination of paralysis, increased tendon reflex activity, and hypertonia. …

  4. Spasticity | Fact Sheets - Yale Medicine

    Spasticity is a condition characterized by muscle stiffness or tightness, increased muscle tone, muscle spasms, and exaggerated reflexes among other signs and symptoms. It occurs when …

  5. Spasticity - BrainFacts

    Spasticity is a condition in which there is an abnormal increase in muscle tone or stiffness of muscle, which might interfere with movement, speech, or be associated with discomfort or pain.

  6. Spasticity | Neurological Surgery - Weill Cornell

    Spasticity is a movement disorder in which muscles are abnormally contracted, resulting in stiffness, rigidity, jerky motions, awkward posture and limb positions, and speech problems.

  7. Spasticity Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments - WebMD

    Sep 19, 2023 · Spasticity is a muscle control disorder that is characterized by tight or stiff muscles and an inability to control those muscles.

  8. Muscle spasticity: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments

    Sep 6, 2019 · Find out all about spasticity, which occurs when nerve impulses controlling muscle movement are interrupted or damaged.

  9. Spasticity - Kaiser Permanente

    Spasticity usually occurs because of damage to the part of the brain or spinal cord that controls voluntary movement. It's often the result of a spinal cord injury, a stroke, or a disease such as …

  10. Manage Spasticity After Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) | MSKTC

    What is spasticity? Spasticity is a condition in which muscles stiffen or contract. It is common in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). About 65% to 93% of people with an SCI have spasticity. …