Tonight we are very excited to have Dr. Steven Flanagan as our guest speaker. Dr. Flanagan is the Director of Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic at Mt. Sinai Medical Center. His topic tonight is Intrathecal Treatment os Spasticity.
Spasticity is an abnormality in muscle tone.
Instead we are talking about the abnormal stiffness of muscles that occurs after an injury to the brain or to the spinal cord. By definition, spasticity means there is resistance to moving an arm or a leg. Initially after a brain injury, muscles become flaccid, that is , there is no resistance to passively moving a limb. However, not many physicians are familiar with its use. It is not, however, a difficult program to initiate.