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.

Muscles injected according to spasticity: MAS, passive and active range of movement, time to dress upper body, FAT, finger curl, global clinical assessment score, gait (if mobile) ...

In fact, MAS is considered the current clinical gold standard, recommended by the American Physical Therapy Association, in the the absence of objective clinical tools for measuring spasticity that ...

Spasticity was characterised by a score of at least 1+ on the Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) 20 for the medial rotators and elbow flexors, with limited range of passive motion of the shoulder: external ...

The MAS inter-rater reliability (PT1 VS PT2) for the hand spasticity assessment reported a moderate-substantial weighted kappa of 0.586, and an ICC of 0.911. According to Hager (2003) , ICC scores ...

An examiner moves patient's joint quickly to rate the level of resistance and then spasticity level for the target muscle group using AS and MAS ().The AS and MAS are rated on a 0–4 scale, with the ...

Several clinical trials have tested nabiximols in people with MS-related spasticity. Here, scientists conducted analyses from two such trials: GWSP0604 (NCT00681538), completed in 2009, and SAVANT ...

The aim of this work is to formulate a spasticity symptoms-oriented model, in terms of its capability to consistently emulate unidirectional and velocity-dependent spasticity symptoms, based on a ...

Self-reported scores on the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) from patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and multiple sclerosis (MS) were correlated with physicians’ scores on the ...

Wondering what causes spasticity? Many neurological conditions cause muscle spasms and tightness, or spasticity. Discover why that happens.

Both studies used similar designs: after a lead-in phase, patients who responded to the treatment were randomized to either Sativex or a placebo for 12 weeks, and spasticity in various muscles was ...