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Understanding & Treating Spasticity - Yale Medicine Explains

For more information on spasticity or #YaleMedicine, visit: https://www.yalemedicine.org/clinical.... When you decide to move a muscle, your brain sends an electrical signal with instructions for this movement. These nerve impulses travel from your brain, down the spinal cord, and through the peripheral nerves. At the end of the nerve the signal triggers a chemical response that crosses over into the muscle. This triggers a chain reaction inside the muscle fibers (tiny threads that build your muscles), causing them to contract and produce movement. To stop the movement, the nerve impulses stop, and the muscle relaxes. Sometimes the nervous system can send too many signals to the muscles, causing them to be too tight, stiff, and jerky which can interfere with normal movement and function. Spasticity is a condition caused by a disruption in those nerve impulses due to damage or disease affecting the brain or spinal cord. The muscles receive incorrect or excessive nerve impulses. This exaggerated response from the nervous system increases muscle tone and causes overactive reflexes. The muscles resist being stretched or moved resulting in stiffness or tightness of muscles and involuntary muscle spasms. This can severely impact quality of life and require medical intervention to restore function and comfort. The Yale Adult Spasticity Multidisciplinary Clinic works as a multidisciplinary team to find the right treatment for patients. They offer nonoperative options like Botox or cryotherapy to stun the nerves. If surgery is required they offer procedures that both remove the nerve fibers and treat the tendons which allows for no reoccurrence. Both before and after any treatment patients work with occupational therapists as well. 0:00 Spasticity 1:40 Treatment