
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 …
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 …
What Is Spasticity? - WebMD
May 8, 2025 · Spasticity can occur when there’s damage to your brain, spinal cord, or the nerves that send signals back and forth. Learn more about this condition and what triggers it.
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. …
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 …
Spasticity: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Feb 11, 2025 · Spasticity is stiff or rigid muscles. It may also be called unusual tightness or increased muscle tone. Reflexes (for example, a knee-jerk reflex) are stronger or exaggerated. …
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. …
10 Causes of Spasticity - Neurology Solutions
Spasticity is a neurological condition characterized by an abnormal muscle tone or stiffness increase, which can significantly impair bodily functions and daily activities. This condition …
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.
Spasticity - Physiopedia
Spasticity is seen to be a positive feature of upper motor neuron syndrome. This is because it is due to a loss of inhibition of the lower motor neuron pathways, rather than a loss of connection …