Without treatment, upper limb spasticity can make your muscles stiffer and more painful over time. But new treatments can give you better control of your arms and help you live an active life.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval of Botox ® (onabotulinumtoxinA) to include 8 new muscles for the treatment of upper limb spasticity in adults, along with the use ...

A clinical trial compares high-intensity resistance training and blood flow restriction methods, revealing effective ...

--Allergan, an AbbVie company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a label expansion of BOTOX ® to include eight new muscles for the treatment of upper limb ...

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 ...

A review of instruments used to assess upper-limb function in patients with neuromuscular diseases found that more tools are needed to address specific diseases. In most neuromuscular diseases ...

In the first study, the researchers randomly assigned 170 patients with upper limb spasticity to receive a single injection of onabotulinum toxin A (40 units) or placebo into the thumb flexor muscles.

Upper extremity injuries require unique recovery treatments that are most effective when tailored to an ... muscle and/or skeletal tissue, overwhelming the tissue’s normal ability to recover ...

The more obvious points of peripheral nerve entrapment in the upper extremity are discussed. These are points at which an anatomic configuration, usually a fibrous band, can cause mechanical trauma.