Highly active children or those with muscle spasticity require more calories than this; immobile children require less.
Injectable medicines, like other antispasmodic medicines, relax muscles and reduce muscle spasticity.
Clinically, physicians have also classified cerebral palsy according to the topographic distribution of muscle spasticity.
Dantrolene is used to treat muscle spasticity (stiffness and spasms) caused by conditions such as a spinal cord injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, or multiple sclerosis.
Affected children display severe psychomotor retardation, failure to thrive, seizures, and muscle spasticity or hypotonia.
In PLS, stretching is thought to improve flexibility and can also reduce muscle spasticity and cramps.
Baclofen A baclofen pump has been used to treat patients of all ages exhibiting muscle spasticity along with dystonia.
Recent research showed no reduction in muscle spasticity.
Tizanidine is a short-acting medication that should be taken only for daily activities that require relief from muscle spasticity.
This medication should be taken only for daily activities that require relief from muscle spasticity.