This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Spastic paralysis' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

You wouldn't know just by looking at the smile on her face, but 3-year-old Naomi Lockard's life is nothing like other children's. "When Naomi was a baby, we had a lot of questions about why she wasn't ...

Mutations in 3 genes (SPG4, SPG3, and SPG31) are implicated in one half of the autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegias, which are part of the larger group of hereditary spastic diplegias ...

Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), also known as familial spastic paraparesis, is a term used for a group of inherited diseases that affect the upper motor neurons traveling from the brain through ...

Readers, this might be a little premature but I think disabled people could be seeing a turnaround in their public image over the next few months. First of all, our reputation as good-for-nothing ...

These disorders are historically divided on clinical grounds into pure and complex forms, according to the absence or presence of additional neurological and extraneurological features, such as ...

A 62-year-old woman with a recent hysterectomy (6 months ago) was diagnosed with spastic colon after colonoscopy for abdominal pain radiating to the rectum. She was then treated with Tofranil 10 mg, ...

After more than six decades in business, the Spastic Centre has renamed itself the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, arguing that these days the word spastic has too many negative connotations. To mark the ...

Spastic colon is a term that's sometimes used to refer to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a common disorder characterized by abdominal cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, constipation and diarrhea.

I had something of an epiphany last year whilst at Edinburgh Fringe. I'd incorporated an old video of me bungee jumping into my act, which had always made me laugh, though I could never quite put my ...