Is spasticity or spastic cocontraction of the elbow flexors associated with the limitation of voluntary elbow extension in adults with acquired hemiparesis
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rehab.2018.05.1020
Abstract: Introduction/Background Muscle overactivity, including spasticity and spastic cocontraction, is an involuntary motor unit recruitment participating in the spastic paresis syndrome after cerebral injury. Spasticity is defined as velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes. Spastic cocontraction… read more here.
Keywords: spastic cocontraction; cocontraction; spasticity; elbow ... See more keywords