A new target with potential as an effective new therapy for chronic spasticity and rigidity, a painful condition that often results from spinal cord injury, has been identified. Spinal spasticity is ...

A 12-yr-old unimmunized Amish boy weighing 32 kg was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit at a regional tertiary care center with a history of progressive generalized, painful muscle rigidity ...

Spasticity causes chronic muscle tightness and stiffness that keep muscles contracted, reducing mobility and affecting both large movements like walking and fine motor skills like eating or writing.

Spasticity is a symptom or complication of many different neurological disorders in which normal muscle movement patterns are disrupted, and muscles contract, or tighten, involuntarily. In a healthy ...