Mary Ellen Ciganovich became very familiar with muscle spasticity in her more than 30 years of living with multiple sclerosis (MS). The holistic health and spirituality teacher has tried to engage in ...

Many people with multiple sclerosis have stiff muscles and spasms, a condition called spasticity. It happens mostly in the muscles of the legs and arms, and it may keep you from moving your limbs ...

Life-changing events may bring immense challenges such as spasticity, a complication of certain neurological conditions that can greatly interfere with your everyday life. At Craig H. Neilsen ...

Spasticity is a condition that causes your muscles to stiffen, tighten, and contract. It happens involuntarily, which means you don’t have control over it. Spasticity typically happens because of ...

It can be uncomfortable and painful at times. Spasticity occurs when the nerve impulses that control muscle movement are interrupted or damaged. A variety of conditions can cause this, including: ...

The involuntary muscle spasms that occur as a result of neuromotor disorders and spinal cord injury can have dangerous consequences for affected individuals. New findings shed light on one mechanism ...

Anyone who has had tight muscles or a muscle spasm knows how uncomfortable and limiting these experiences can be. But when you have spasticity, which causes tight muscles and uncontrollable ...

Spasticity is a condition that causes muscle stiffness and affects a person’s ability to speak and move. A variety of different treatment options are available to help manage this condition.

Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis can, naturally, have an enormous impact on your life. You may need to make some lifestyle changes and try a few treatments to help manage the various symptoms, ...

If you have spasticity, whether following a stroke or traumatic brain injury or due to a progressive disease such as multiple sclerosis (MS), your muscles remain contracted, or tightened, in one ...

Medically reviewed by Nicholas R. Metrus, MD Key Takeaways Post-stroke pain can develop weeks or months after a stroke and ...

(1) To determine the effects of the level of spinal cord injury (SCI) on skeletal muscle, intramuscular fat (IMF) cross-sectional areas (CSAs) and relative IMF; (2) to determine the relation, if any, ...