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Understanding Spasticity: Physiology & Assessment by heena solanki is a document available to read on EtoBox.
- Spasticity is characterized by a velocity-dependent increase in muscle tone and exaggerated reflexes resulting from hyper-excitability of the stretch reflex. It develops due to loss of descending inhibitory pathways in the spinal cord after upper motor neuron injury. - The pathophysiology involves denervation supersensitivity, axonal sprouting, and changes in inhibitory pathways like reciprocal and recurrent inhibition that normally prevent co-contraction of agonist and antagonist muscles. Mechanical chan
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- heena solanki
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