Muscle Spasticity - Nursing
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The nurse's role in assessing and measuring spasticity.

30 Mar 2006 Spasticity is a common feature of neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, stroke, brain and spinal injuries. The management of spasticity remains a challenge for not only the person with spasticity but also their family, ... Read more...

Care provider assessment of intrathecal baclofen in children.

30 Jul 2004 Intrathecal baclofen is used increasingly to manage severe spasticity in children. Before implanting the baclofen pump, care providers typically ask how it will benefit their child. The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions of care ... Read more...

A self-report of quality of life of patients receiving intrathecal baclofen therapy.

30 Aug 2003 The purpose of this study was to explore through a department quality improvement tool a possible relation between quality of life (QOL), complication rates, and length of intrathecal baclofen (IB) treatment as reported by patients receiving IB ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Muscle Spasticity - Nursing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Spasticity defied] 30 Mar 2009
• Managing spasticity with intrathecal drug delivery. 30 Mar 2008
• The nurse's role in assessing and measuring spasticity. 30 Mar 2006
• Medical cases who would benefit from treatment on a spinal injury unit. 30 Jul 2004
• Care provider assessment of intrathecal baclofen in children. 30 Jul 2004
• [The Bobath concept today: still appropiate yesterday--a nursing error today?] 30 Mar 2004
• A self-report of quality of life of patients receiving intrathecal baclofen therapy. 30 Aug 2003
• [Letter concerning the article "Botulinum toxin", KKS 3/03, p. 95] 29 Apr 2003
• [Botulinum toxin--interventional neuropediatrics in spastic movement disorders in childhood] 27 Feb 2003
• Spasm in MS. 29 Sep 2001
• Spasticity in kids. An intrathecal option. 30 Dec 2000
• Treatment of cerebral origin spasticity with continuous intrathecal baclofen delivered via an implantable pump: long-term follow-up review of 18 patients. 30 Oct 1999
• Continuous intrathecal baclofen infusions. An introduction and overview. 27 Feb 1999
• Action stations. 30 Jan 1999
• System overload. 30 Jan 1999
• Spasticity. 30 Aug 1998
• Patient management of cerebral origin spasticity with intrathecal baclofen. 30 Jan 1998
• Measuring muscle tone and movement. 30 May 1995
• Intrathecal baclofen for spasticity of cerebral palsy: project coordination and nursing care. 30 May 1995
• Spasticity. Mechanisms and nursing care. 29 Nov 1993

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Technical information about 'Muscle Spasticity'

Definition: A form of muscle hypertonia associated with upper MOTOR NEURON DISEASE. Resistance to passive stretch of a spastic muscle results in minimal initial resistance (a "free interval") followed by an incremental increase in muscle tone. Tone increases in proportion to the velocity of stretch. Spasticity is usually accompanied by HYPERREFLEXIA and variable degrees of MUSCLE WEAKNESS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p54)

Descriptor UI: D009128

Alternative terms: Muscle Spasticity; Spasticity, Muscle; Spastic; Clasp-Knife Spasticity; Clasp Knife Spasticity; Spasticity, Clasp-Knife;

Related Mesh Headings: Spasm;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C05.651.512; C10.597.613.550.550; C23.888.592.608.550.550;

History Note: 1977

Technical Notes: skeletal muscle only; note category: not physiological; spastic paralysis: coord NIM with PARALYSIS (IM); spasticity in cerebral palsy: coord NIM with CEREBRAL PALSY only if musc spasticity is especially discussed