Spasticity is a pathology which consist of contraction in certain muscles. This contraction causes stiffness or tightness of the muscles and it mostly interfere with normal movement, speech and gait.
There are a lot of causes of Spasticity, the most of the causes are the damage to the portion of the brain or spinal cord that controls voluntary movement.
The spasticity may cause to a difficulty of the patient’s care. If the spasticity is so severe the patient cannot walk or sit or you can not taking care of the patients about the cleaning or hygienic procedures.
The most common cause of the spasticity is spastic cerebral palsy disorder, the other causes are Trauma, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), brain injury, spinal cord njury, stroke.
There are some treatment strategies like medication or physical thery and rehabilitation but in treatment resistant cases; Intrathecal Baclofen Pump therapy is so effective and reliable treatment. Before the Intrathecal Baclofen Pump implantation there is a test attempt, this attempt gives a very big advantage to select the exact patients who will have benefit from the procedure.
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