[Spasticity: today and tomorrow].
History of the spasticity is evoked including its physiological and medical aspects. The reduction of functional capacity of the patient experiencing spasticity is, for the author, one of the major duties of the medical staff involved in the treatment of this symptom. Some aspects of the measure of the reduction of functional capacity due to this symptom are described. Its seems to the author that the new treatments (neuronal graft.) should increase the number of patients to be treated for spasticity.
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Service de Rééducation Neurologique, INSERM U 483, Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré, Garches. bernard.bussel@rpc.ap-hop-paris.fr
D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009128:Muscle Spasticity / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000266:history / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures