The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox, Allergan) to ease upper limb spasticity in children and adolescents aged 2 to 17 years, the company announced. Common ...

Upper limb spasticity is a painful condition caused by extremely tight muscles that can't be controlled. It's often a side effect of stroke, neurological disease or brain injury, but a new type of ...

Botulinum toxin type A was first used for the treatment of spasticity in 1989. A small uncontrolled study of treatment of upper limb spasticity after stroke reported encouraging benefits, including ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA; Allergan) for the treatment of upper limb spasticity in pediatric patients 2-17 years of age. The approval was based on ...

The indication for adult upper limb spasticity treatment now includes elbow and forearm muscles, intrinsic hand muscles, and thumb muscles. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the ...

Many stroke patients suffer from spasticity of the arm that cause pain and impaired sensorimotor function. But there are ways of identifying such patients ahead of time so that they can obtain the ...

Phase IV head-to-head, double-blind trial comparing safety and efficacy met its primary and secondary endpointsThe DIRECTION trial results show ...

Merz Therapeutics to present 11 abstracts at ISPRM World Congress 2026, highlighting its commitment to improving outcomes for people living with movement disorders Updated analysis indicates that ...

— Achieved key co-primary endpoint on efficacy, with 500U dose demonstrating statistically significant difference from placebo in the Modified Ashworth Score (MAS) improvement from baseline — ...

Henry Winkler, known for his television role as Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli, made it a happy day for many people in the Triangle Tuesday who suffer from upper limb spasticity. Henry Winkler, known ...