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Interventional Spasticity Management for Enhancing Patient – Physician Communications
- Source :
- International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications. 5
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- The Science and Information Organization, 2014.
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Abstract
- Stroke is the third most common cause of death in the Western world, behind heart disease and cancer, and accounts for over half of all neurologic admissions to community hospitals. Spasticity is commonly defined as excessive motor activity characterized by a velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes. It is often associated with exaggerated tendon jerks, and is often accompanied by abnormal cutaneous and autonomic reflexes, muscle weakness, lack of dexterity, fatigability, and co-contraction of agonist and antagonist muscles. It is a common complication of central nervous system disorders, including stroke, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, anoxic brain injury, spinal cord injury, primary lateral sclerosis, and hereditary spastic hemiparesis. Leg muscle activation during locomotion is produced by spinal neuronal circuits within the spinal cord, the spinal pattern generator [central pattern generator (CPG)]. For the control of human locomotion, afferent information from a variety of sources within the visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive systems is utilized by the CPGs. Findings of this research can be applied to older adults in longitudinal home care who suffer spasticity caused by stroke.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
General Computer Science
medicine.diagnostic_test
Computer science
Traumatic brain injury
Multiple sclerosis
Central nervous system
Muscle weakness
Electromyography
medicine.disease
Spinal cord
Spastic hemiparesis
Tendon
Cerebral palsy
medicine.anatomical_structure
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
medicine
Spasticity
medicine.symptom
Anoxic brain injury
Stroke
Spinal cord injury
Primary Lateral Sclerosis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21565570 and 2158107X
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........f3b511b4bcd4697c4447bd4ec327a084