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She said her 19-year-old son's spasticity meant his skin was particularly vulnerable to damage, including pressure and moisture sores.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2025

In advanced cases, patients may have limited mobility and experience spasticity, weakness, poor coordination and incontinence.

From Science Daily • Nov. 6, 2023

For her, spasticity refers to an “unending, constant, painful tightness in my legs and other parts of my body,” making her life “very difficult and is not something I can control.”

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2022

It also improves patient-reported multiple sclerosis spasticity symptoms.

From Washington Times • Jan. 25, 2017

Pressure on the pons may produce hemiplegia of the opposite side, with spasticity and exaggeration of reflexes.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander