Spasticity is a condition that affects your muscles, making them tight or stiff. This can impact your ability to perform daily activities, such as walking, eating, and talking. The condition may also ...

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord is a promising strategy for reestablishing walking after spinal cord injury, recent studies show. But for patients suffering from muscle spasms, the ...

One of the serious and enduring side effects of a spinal cord injury can be the gradual development of regular muscle spasms, something that afflicts around 70 percent of sufferers, according to ...

A former intern at The Scientist, Amy studied neurobiology at Cornell University and later earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She is a Los Angeles–based writer, editor, ...

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it approved Allergan's botulinum-based drug Botox to treat spasms of the elbow, wrist and fingers. Botox is most famous for it's ability to smooth frown ...

The approval was based a bioavailability study comparing baclofen oral tablets with Fleqsuvy. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Fleqsuvy (baclofen oral suspension) for the treatment ...