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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. 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.

  4. 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. …

  5. 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 …

  6. 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. …

  7. 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. …

  8. 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 …

  9. 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.

  10. 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 …