After a stroke, your body often no longer behaves as it did before. Often, people experience spastic movement disorders. That ...

Muscle spasticity, a common symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS), can make everyday movements feel stiff, tight, and painful. Stretching is one way to help reduce some of that discomfort, improve ...

Spasticity is a condition that causes your muscles to stiffen, tighten, and contract. It happens involuntarily, which means you don’t have control over it. Spasticity typically happens because of ...

Spasticity symptoms like stiff, rigid muscles generally aren’t hard for your doctor to miss. But it’s important to rule out anything else so they can tailor the right treatment plan for you. They’ll ...

HOUSTON – Almost half of stroke survivors can experience spasticity, meaning their muscles get tighter and tighter until they lose the ability to move. RELATED: How one program is helping brain trauma ...

Researchers have made a significant advancement in the field of spinal cord injury research, developing a novel optogenetic mouse model that could lead to improved treatments for limb spasticity.

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Each year on October 3, fans of the iconic teen movie “Mean Girls” celebrate “Mean Girls Day” with pink outfits and cheese fries. The October date is cinematically significant, since it refers to the ...

In Mean Girls, Lacey Chabert's Gretchen Wieners always wanted to make "fetch" a term for cool, despite the hate that Regina George (Rachel McAdams) had for it. She's finally done it in the best way ...

I read “Middlemarch” for the first time during my sophomore year of college. I didn’t get it. Why would Dorothea, a young and intelligent woman, marry that annoying old man? How could she be so stupid ...