Spasticity or reversible muscle hypertonia?

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 556-557

  Bakheit, Abdel Magid O ^a   Fheodoroff, Klemens ^b   Molteni, Franco ^c  

^a Moseley Hall Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b Gailtal Klinik   (Australia)

^c Villa Beretta ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Hypertonia; Spasticity; Upper motor neurone syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NOMENCLATURE; SPASTICITY;

HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 79959528076     PISSN: 16501977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-0817     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Wissel J, Schelosky LD, Scott J, Walter C, Faiss JH, Mueller J. Early development of spasticity following stroke: a prospective observational trial. J Neurol 2010; 257: 1067-1072.
2. Watkins CL, Leathley MJ, Gregson JM, Moore PA, Smith TL, Sharma AK. Prevalence of spasticity post stroke. Clin Rehabil 2002; 16: 515-522.
3. Lance JW. Symposium synopsis. In: Feldman RG, Young RR & Koella WP, editors. Spasticity: disordered motor control. Chicago: Year Book Medical Publishers; 1998: p. 485-494.
4. O'Dwyer NJ, Ada L, Neilson PD. Spasticity and muscle contracture following stroke. Brain 1996; 119: 1737-1749. (Pubitemid 26375740)
5. Bakheit AMO, Maynard VA, Curnow J, Hudson N, Kodapala S. The relation between Ashworth scale scores and the excitability of the ? motor neurones in patients with post-stroke muscle spasticity. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003; 74: 646-648.
6. Thilmann AF, Fellows SJ, Garms E. The mechanism of spastic muscle hypertonus: variation in reflex gain over the time course of spasticity. Brain 1991; 114: 233-244.
7. Hufschmidt A, Mauritz KH. Chronic transformation of muscle in spasticity: a peripheral contribution to increased tone. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1985; 48: 676-685. (Pubitemid 15026244)
8. Sinkjaer T, Magnussen I. Passive, intrinsic and reflex-mediated stiffness in the ankle extensors of hemiplegic patients. Brain 1994; 117: 355-363. (Pubitemid 24155507)
9. Lieber RL, Steinman S, Barash IA, Chambers H. Structural and functional changes in spastic skeletal muscle. Muscle Nerve 2004; 29: 615-627. (Pubitemid 38620003)
10. Wilson LR, Gracies J-M, Burke D,Gandevia SC. Evidence for fusimotor drive in stroke patients based on muscle spindle thixotropy. Neurosci Letts1999; 264: 109-112. (Pubitemid 29195961)
11. Tardieu C, Tabary JC, Tardieu G, Tabary C. Adaptation of sarcomere numbers to the length imposed on the muscle. Adv Physiol Sci 1980; 24: 99-114.
12. World Health Organization. World Health Organization (WHO) ICF online 2001. [cited 2011 Jan 28] Available from: .who.int/classifications/icfbrowser/.