Stroke can change your life in a single day. Around the world, more than 15 million people have a stroke each year, and roughly three quarters of them are left with long-term disability. If you are ...

Botulinum toxin type A was first used for the treatment of spasticity in 1989. A small uncontrolled study of treatment of upper limb spasticity after stroke reported encouraging benefits, including ...

Many stroke patients suffer from spasticity of the arm that cause pain and impaired sensorimotor function. But there are ways of identifying such patients ahead of time so that they can obtain the ...

The development of compensatory movement strategies is a reliable consequence of strokes that result in motor disabilities. Obvious forms of compensation for upper-limb disability after stroke include ...

A new touch-screen tool helps to speed upper limb recovery among stroke patients, according to its developers. The rehabilitation system, called EDNA, features a range of therapeutic games designed to ...

A stroke left Heather Rendulic with little use of her left hand and arm, putting certain everyday tasks like tying shoes or cutting foods out of reach. "I live one-handed in a two-handed world and you ...

Carilion Clinic reached a milestone in May as the first health system in Virginia to implant Vivistim® for improved arm and hand function post stroke. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in ...

FRANKFURT, Nov. 18 Today, Merz Pharmaceuticals announced Xeomin®, the first botulinum toxin type A free from complexing proteins has been granted an extension of indication for post-stroke spasticity ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the MicroTransponder Vivistim Paired VNS System (Vivistim System), a first-of-its-kind, drug-free rehabilitation system intended to treat moderate ...

Spasticity is involuntary overactivity of muscles that occurs following upper motor neuron damage to the brain or spinal cord. Upper limb spasticity is common after stroke and can cause deformity, ...