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, ...

In a recent article published in Nature Medicine, researchers performed an open-label phase I trial wherein they applied deep brain stimulation (DBS) to the cerebellar dentate nucleus (DN) to promote ...

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 ...

Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide and the third cause of induced disability, according to estimates from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study. Treatments ...

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 ...

Expert Rev Neurother. 2009;9(12):1713-1725. The first patients with squint were successfully treated in 1977 [17] and since then botulinum toxin type A delivered by local injection has been used in ...