Any injury or illness that affects the spinal cord can cause spasticity, an increase in muscle stiffness that can lead to immobility. In this podcast, physiatrist Bobby Brunner, M.D. discusses some ...

After a stroke, your body often no longer behaves as it did before. Often, people experience spastic movement disorders. That can mean This means that the muscles suddenly cramp or stiffen, they are ...

Expert Rev Neurother. 2009;9(12):1713-1725. The first patients with squint were successfully treated in 1977 [17] and since then botulinum toxin type A delivered by local injection has been used in ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System provides this website as an auxiliary resource for the primary care of patients with spinal cord injury.The contents of this ...

Bladder spasms cause you to suddenly feel like you need to run to the bathroom and empty your bladder. They occur when the muscles in your bladder contract rapidly. Bladder spasms are common for ...

Spasmodic dysphonia (or laryngeal dystonia) is a rare voice disorder that is thought to happen when your brain sends abnormal signals to your vocal folds. It only affects about 1 in 100,000 people.