Neurological Rehabilitation Spasticity and Contractures in Clinical Practice and Research

Abstract

Definition and measurement of spasticity and contracture / Anand D Pandyan, Bernard A. Conway, Hermie Hermens, and Garth Johnson -- Pathophysiology of spasticity / Jens Bo Nielsen, Maria Willerslev-Olsen, and Jakob Lorentzen -- Functional problems in spastic patients are not caused by spasticity but by disordered motor control / Jakob Lorentzen, Maria Willerslev-Olsen, Thomas Sinkjær, and Jens Bo Nielsen -- The clinical management of spasticity and contractures in cerebral palsy / Andrew Roberts -- Clinical management of spasticity and contractures in stroke / J.F.M. Fleuren, J.H. Buurke, and A.C. Geurts -- Clinical management of spasticity and contractures in spinal cord injury / Martin Schubert and Volker Dietz -- Clinical management of spasticity and contractures in multiple sclerosis / Lorna Paul and Paul Mattison -- Clinical assessment and management of spasticity and contractures in traumatic brain injury / Gerard E. Francisco and Sheng Li -- Hereditary spastic paraparesis and other hereditary myelopathies / Jon Marsden, Lisa Bunn, Amanda Denton, and Krishnan Padmakumari Sivaraman Nair.