spastic
The doctor recommended taking a hot bath to decrease stiffness and spasticity.
The patient's spasticity did not respond to medication.
Spasticity is a common aftereffect of strokes.

Examples of spasticity

spasticity
Some patients with widespread relatively mild spasticity have additional severe focal spasticity.
The percentage of excellent results decreased with time from lesion and spasticity and increased with increasing treatment.
This sheet looks at the use of diazepam by independent nurse prescribers in palliative care for chronic severe spasticity.
Time from lesion, spasticity and extent of treatment appeared to be the most important variables determining the response.
Interestingly, spasms may subside after much smaller doses than would be needed to relieve other facets of spasticity.
See below for discussion of muscle selection in spasticity.
This has been especially marked in the treatment of paediatric spasticity, and it is essential that physicians for the elderly do not follow suit.
Some researchers have looked at the concept of equating the measurable aspects of reflexiveness to spasticity.
In the meantime, within the health service, much time and resources are spent in the treatment of established poststroke spasticity.
It is apparent that the field of poststroke spasticity requires further work.
Clinical findings include limb and gait ataxia, dysarthria, spasticity, oculomotor abnormalities, and decreased vibration sensation.
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