© 2010 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/16501977-0579 Journal Compilation © 2010 Foundation of Rehabilitation Information. ISSN 1650-1977 Objective: To quantify dynamic spasticity, i.e. the coupling between muscle-tendon stretch velocity and muscle activity during gait, of the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles in children with spastic cerebral palsy. Design: Prospective, cross-sectional study. Subjects...

Purpose: Several methods are used to reduce spasticity in cerebral palsy (CP) rehabilitation. One of these is stretching. This study aimed compare the acute effects intramuscular stretching and passive on children with bilateral spastic CP.Methods: The included a total 22 (12 boys 10 girls) CP, between ages 5 13 years (mean age=6.45±1.96 years), who had plantar flexor muscle groups. All were un...

Background: Spasticity is one of the most common problems and greatly interferes with functional capacity chronic stroke patients. The commonly used treatments are infrared therapy stretching exercises, but they have not reduced spasticity effectively. addition Radial Shock Wave Therapy (RSWT) was expected to be more effective in reducing Aim: purpose this study prove that RSWT Material methods...

AIM Despite the impact of spasticity, there is a lack of objective, clinically reliable and valid tools for its assessment. This study aims to evaluate the reliability of various performance- and spasticity-related parameters collected with a manually controlled instrumented spasticity assessment in four lower limb muscles in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD The lateral gastrocnemius...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy and safety of incobotulinumtoxinA with conventional antispastic therapy for poststroke arm spasticity in routine clinical practice over a 1-year period. DESIGN Prospective, non-interventional, open-label, parallel-group study. SETTING 47 centres in Germany. PARTICIPANTS Patients with poststroke arm spasticity; 108 receiving incobotulinumtoxinA, 110 conven...

OBJECTIVE To quantify dynamic spasticity, i.e. the coupling between muscle-tendon stretch velocity and muscle activity during gait, of the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles in children with spastic cerebral palsy. DESIGN Prospective, cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS Seventeen ambulatory children with cerebral palsy with spastic calf muscles, and 11 matched typically developing children. MET...

Aim: The comparison of the efficiency Classical Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation (CPTR), Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS), Electromyographic Biofeedback (EMG-BF) Robotic (RR) on tibialis anterior (mTA) muscle activation functions hemiplegic patients was aimed.Materials Methods: Thirty aged 40-86 years were participated. range motion (ROM), 10 meters walk test, Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS...

Dystonia is generally referred to belong to the generic terms, muscle spasm and muscle stiffness. Muscle spasms would be any involuntary abnormal muscle contraction, regardless of whether it is painful or not, that cannot be usually terminated by voluntary relaxation. Muscle stiffness is an involuntary muscle shortening that usually lasts for seconds to minutes, but may be sustained. Sustained ...

INTRODUCTION Botulinum toxin A (BTA) improves the kinematic parameters of gait in patients with spasticity of lower limbs, but there are no studies in which kinetic parameters are measured with instrumented insoles. We therefore used instrumented insoles to perform a functional assessment of therapeutic results in patients with lower limb spasticity after brain injury or spinal cord infiltratio...