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[Physiopathology and clinical evaluation of spasticity]
1Divisão de Medicina Física e Reabilitação, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo.
Revista Do Hospital Das Clinicas
|May 1, 1994
Abstract:
The spasticity is a motor alteration of the muscle tonus caused by the spinal reflex hyperactivity, related to the increasing of the muscle reaction to the stretching. It is very frequent in the upper motor neuron lesional.