"Muscle Spasticity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A form of muscle hypertonia associated with upper MOTOR NEURON DISEASE. Resistance to passive stretch of a spastic muscle results in minimal initial resistance (a "free interval") followed by an incremental increase in muscle tone. Tone increases in proportion to the velocity of stretch. Spasticity is usually accompanied by HYPERREFLEXIA and variable degrees of MUSCLE WEAKNESS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p54)
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D009128
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C05.651.512 C10.597.613.550.550 C23.888.592.608.550.550
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Muscle Spasticity" by people in Profiles.
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A longitudinal study of self-reported spasticity among individuals with chronic spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord. 2018 03; 56(3):218-225.
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Association of spasticity and life satisfaction after spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord. 2011 Sep; 49(9):990-4.
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Clinical and neurophysiologic assessment of strength and spasticity during intrathecal baclofen titration in incomplete spinal cord injury: single-subject design. J Spinal Cord Med. 2009; 32(2):183-90.
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Finding new etiologies of mental retardation and hypotonia: X marks the spot. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2008 Feb; 50(2):104-11.
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X-linked MCT8 gene mutations: characterization of the pediatric neurologic phenotype. J Child Neurol. 2005 Oct; 20(10):852-7.
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Factors associated with risk for subsequent injuries after traumatic spinal cord injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2004 Sep; 85(9):1503-8.
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The effect of tiagabine on spasticity in children with intractable epilepsy: a pilot study. Pediatr Neurol. 1999 Oct; 21(4):728-30.
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Determining consistency of elbow joint threshold angle in elbow flexor muscles with spastic hypertonia. Phys Ther. 1996 Jun; 76(6):586-600.
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Wrist movements in able-bodied and brain injured individuals. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 1991 Jun; 72(7):454-9.
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Nonconvulsive status epilepticus following metrizamide myelography. Ann Neurol. 1984 Aug; 16(2):252-4.