Spasticity is a condition that affects your muscles, making them tight or stiff. This can impact your ability to perform daily activities, such as walking, eating, and talking. The condition may also ...

Any injury or illness that affects the spinal cord can cause spasticity, an increase in muscle stiffness that can lead to immobility. In this podcast, physiatrist Bobby Brunner, M.D. discusses some ...

Physical therapy is a medical treatment that helps you improve your function, range of motion, and overall quality of life. Physical therapy can help accelerate healing from an injury, reduce pain, ...

A new target with potential as an effective new therapy for chronic spasticity and rigidity, a painful condition that often results from spinal cord injury, has been identified. Spinal spasticity is ...

Symptoms of spasticity — including chronic muscle stiffness, pain, and jerkiness of voluntary movements — can interfere with your daily activities. Left untreated, these symptoms may significantly ...

BRISBANE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Delpor, Inc. (Delpor), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that utilizes innovative technologies to develop once-yearly therapies for chronic conditions, ...

Physical therapy (PT) can help manage movement and reduce pain in people with various conditions, like neurological diseases and traumatic injuries. Physical therapists evaluate and take measures to ...

Occupational therapists (OTs) and physical therapists (PTs) work to improve people's lives. The fields are related and have many similarities, but they are different in focus and scope. Many people ...

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