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How Physical Therapy Can Help When You Have Multiple Sclerosis

The nerve damage caused by multiple sclerosis (MS) can disrupt a person’s ability to walk, balance, and even carry out the most basic everyday activities. Staying physically active can improve sleep ...
Everyday Health

Best Stretches to Help With Muscle Spasticity When You Have MS

Muscle spasticity, a common symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS), can make everyday movements feel stiff, tight, and painful. Stretching is one way to help reduce some of that discomfort, improve ...
Medscape

Spasticity in MND Improved With Cannabinoid Oral Spray

Nabiximols, a cannabinoid-based oral spray (Sativex, GW Pharmaceuticals) approved outside the United States for various multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms, shows benefit in improving spasticity and pain ...
Medscape

Clinical Gait Analysis and Its Role in Treatment Decision-Making

To illustrate this process, consider the dysfunction of the right knee of the young man (SR) with cerebral palsy spastic diplegia (Video 3). One can readily appreciate from the video presentation that ...
Nasdaq

GW Pharmaceuticals Initiates Pivotal Phase 3 Study of Nabiximols for Multiple Sclerosis-Associated Spasticity

CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GW Pharmaceuticals plc (NASDAQ: GWPH, GW, the Company or the Group), a world leader in the science, development, and commercialization of ...
BMJ

Variability of kinematic and kinetic gait data in ambulatory children with spastic cerebral palsy with and without fixed ankle-foot orthoses using 3d motion analysis: a ...

1 Centre for Sport & Exercise Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK 2 Medical Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK Background Spastic cerebral palsy (SCP) is a ...