A strong hand touched, assessed and began to knead the spastic muscle.
EMG is used to determine the onset of muscle activity in spastic muscles, allowing for comparison between affected patients and asymptomatic individuals.
Secondary effects are likely to impact on assessment of spastic muscles.
In severely affected spastic muscles, there may be marked secondary changes, such as muscle contracture, particularly if management has been delayed or absent.
Treatment should be done with firm and constant manual contact positioned over nonspastic areas to avoid stimulating the spastic muscle(s).
From then on he began to understand how difficult it is to control spastic muscles.
This is a secondary complication caused by the spastic muscles generating abnormal forces on the bones, and often results in intoeing (pigeon-toed gait).
Seating and positioning children with resistant or spastic muscles is something of an art.
Strategies include mobilizations of the affected limbs early in rehabilitation, along with elongation of the spastic muscle and sustained stretching.
Injections are focal treatments administered directly into the spastic muscle.