Tuesday, October 19, 2010

How can i control or lessen a spastic hemiparesis?

i have a spastic hemiparesis that make my leg shake and want to know how to calm itHow can i control or lessen a spastic hemiparesis?
Spastic Hemiparesis (associated near corticospinal tract disease, as with stroke) is when the spasticity is predetermined to one side of the body or another. So one leg and one arm are affected (right or disappeared side). Individuals with spastic hemiparesis may also experience hemiparetic tremors, surrounded by which uncontrollable shaking affects the limb on one side of the body. If these tremors are severe, they can seriously impair movement.
Experimental surgical technique - stereotaxic thalamotomy which involves precise cutting of parts of the thalamus and serves as the brains relay station for messages from the muscles and sensory organs. This have been shown significant only for reducing hemiparetic tremors--uncontrollable shaking affecting the limb on the spastic side of the body in those who hold spastic hemiplegia.
Maybe there are other ways to treat it but you better collaborate about it next to your doctor...
All the best!
Baclofen is a medication used for this type of problem. Are you seeing a physical medicine doctor??
See this website:
http://www.mdvu.org/library/disease/spas...
I'm not sure of your age: The website below be set up by a Pediatric Hospital in Pittsburg, but some of the treatments will also work near adults. It deals near occupational psychiatric therapy, oral medications and intramuscular injections. One of the medication mentioned is Baclofen as suggested by the first answerer.
http://www.neurosurgery.pitt.edu/pediatr...

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