spasticity
Americannoun
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She said her 19-year-old son's spasticity meant his skin was particularly vulnerable to damage, including pressure and moisture sores.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
In advanced cases, patients may have limited mobility and experience spasticity, weakness, poor coordination and incontinence.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2023
The panel also dismissed multiple medical studies suggesting that the drug has value in treating chronic pain and spasticity.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 23, 2015
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
Pressure on the pons may produce hemiplegia of the opposite side, with spasticity and exaggeration of reflexes.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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