Spastic can refer to: Spasticity, a feature of altered muscle performance A historical reference to people with the movement disorders, see cerebral palsy...
Spasticity (from Greek spasmos- 'drawing, pulling') is a feature of altered skeletal muscle performance with a combination of paralysis, increased tendon...
progressive stiffness (spasticity) and contraction in the lower limbs. HSP is also known as hereditary spastic paraparesis, familial spastic paraplegia, French...
Spastic cerebral palsy is the type of cerebral palsy characterized by spasticity or high muscle tone often resulting in stiff, jerky movements. Cases of...
Spastic diplegia is a form of cerebral palsy (CP) that is a chronic neuromuscular condition of hypertonia and spasticity—manifested as an especially high...
Spastic gait is a form of gait abnormality. It is caused by lesions in the corticospinal tract. A unilateral spastic gait presents with the affected leg...
Spastic quadriplegia, also known as spastic tetraplegia, is a subset of spastic cerebral palsy that affects all four limbs (both arms and legs). Compared...
Tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP), is a medical condition that causes weakness, muscle spasms, and sensory disturbance by human T-lymphotropic virus...
Irritable bowel syndrome Other names Spastic colon, nervous colon, mucous colitis, spastic bowel 3d depiction of the pain of IBS Specialty Gastroenterology...
Spastic paraplegia 6 is a rare type of hereditary spastic paraplegia characterized by muscle tone and bladder anomalies associated with pes cavus and...
Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich...
Spastic hemiplegia is a neuromuscular condition of spasticity that results in the muscles on one side of the body being in a constant state of contraction...
ADAPT – Able Disabled All People Together (formerly known as The Spastics Society of India) is an Indian non-profit and non-governmental organization,...
palsy Gastroparesis – impaired stomach emptying A form of ophthalmoplegia Spastic paresis – exaggerated tendon reflexes and muscle hypertonia In the past...
specific problems present. For example, those with stiff muscles have spastic cerebral palsy, poor coordination in locomotion have ataxic cerebral palsy...
Spastic paraplegia 31 is a rare type of hereditary spastic paraplegia which is characterized by sensation anomalies of the lower extremities. People with...
Spastic Ink was a progressive metal band from the United States. Spastic Ink was formed in 1993 by guitarist Ron Jarzombek of Watchtower after recovering...
Spastic tetraplegia, thin corpus callosum, and progressive microcephaly (often referred to by its acronym SPATCCM) is a rare autosomal recessive disease...
Spastic intestinal obstruction[citation needed] is an obstruction of the intestine that causes a result closure of an intestinal segment due to intestinal...
neuromuscular conditions such as spastic diplegia and other forms of spastic cerebral palsy. The specific sensory nerves inducing spasticity are identified using...
'Spastic Dysphonia' while writing a description of a patient who suffered from a nervous hoarseness. In 1895, Johann Schnitzler used the term "Spastic...
Cerebral Palsy Alliance (formerly The Spastic Centre) is an Australian nonprofit organisation helping babies, children, teenagers and adults living with...
paralytic abasia: caused by paralysis of the leg muscles spastic abasia: caused by spastic stiffening of the leg muscles trembling abasia: caused by...
Hypertonia is a term sometimes used synonymously with spasticity and rigidity in the literature surrounding damage to the central nervous system, namely...
syndrome disorders includes X-linked complicated corpus callosum dysgenesis, spastic paraplegia 1, MASA syndrome, and X-linked hydrocephalus with stenosis of...
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