spasticity
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In advanced cases, patients may have limited mobility and experience spasticity, weakness, poor coordination and incontinence.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2023
"Cerebral palsy is literally classified as spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, which basically means that I have spasticity, or tightness, in my legs specifically," she told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2022
It also improves patient-reported multiple sclerosis spasticity symptoms.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 25, 2017
Signs that suggest a UMN lesion include muscle weakness, strong deep tendon reflexes, decreased control of movement or slowness, pronator drift, a positive Babinski sign, spasticity, and the clasp- knife response.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
At first the paralysed muscles are flaccid, but spasticity soon develops.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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