Upper limb spasticity is a condition that affects the way you move your arms. It makes your muscles stiff and flexed. Sometimes, your arms will twitch or move in a way you can’t control, ...

A advancement in the diagnosis of upper limb (UL) spasticity is on the horizon, moving beyond traditional reliance on clinicians' tactile assessments. Researchers affiliated with UNIST have ...

Upper limb spasticity is a painful condition caused by extremely tight muscles that can't be controlled. It's often a side effect of stroke, neurological disease or brain injury, but a new type of ...

Spasticity is involuntary overactivity of muscles that occurs following upper motor neuron damage to the brain or spinal cord. Upper limb spasticity is common after stroke and can cause deformity ...

The indication for adult upper limb spasticity treatment now includes elbow and forearm muscles, intrinsic hand muscles, and thumb muscles. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the ...

About Upper Limb Spasticity. Upper limb spasticity is a neurological condition that affects the ability to move the arms and can affect hands, fingers, wrist, forearm, elbow and shoulder.

Spasticity is caused by damage to nerve pathways of the brain or spinal cord that control voluntary movement, and can impact limbs in both the upper and lower body. Upper limb spasticity (ULS) can ...

The FDA has set a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date for the upper limb pediatric spasticity indication in the second quarter of 2019; the PDUFA date for the lower limb pediatric ...

Botulinum toxin type A was first used for the treatment of spasticity in 1989. A small uncontrolled study of treatment of upper limb spasticity after stroke reported encouraging benefits ...