Why ictus Patients Find It Hard to Move? It’s Related to spasticità. - ictus Center

As the ictus patients recover, the spasticità will aumentare and patients will feel resistance when move. So, what is spasticità? It is an aumentare in muscle tone that is the amount of tension(or resistance to movement) in muscles. ictus may cause an abnormal aumentare in muscle tone, leader to spasticità.

Is increased muscle tone a good thing or bad thing?

In fact, we all have a certain amount of muscle tone. Normal muscle tone helps us hold our bodies upright when we are posizione seduta and postura eretta, ensure body movement control. Increased lower arto muscle tone is beneficial to aiuto patients stand and walk, and ridurre the incidence of deep vein thrombosis. However, excessive muscle tone will affect the stability of the paziente’s postura eretta equilibrio, the paziente’s cammino andatura and make the paziente move more slowly, even resulting in pain.

How to measure muscle tone clinically?

To check the paziente’s muscle tone, the terapeuta touches the muscle stiffness while passively flexing and stretching the paziente’s arto, feeling the resistance during passive movement. If the muscle becomes stiff when touched and resistance increases during passive movement, it is an aumentare in muscle tone. Clinically, there are professional scales for the valutazione of muscle tone, and the most commonly used is the Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS).

What are the manifestations of muscle tone aumentare in ictus patients?

Take the upper arto of the affected side of ictus paziente as an example, there will be the following typical manifestations:

How to ridurre muscle tone?

1. uso the safe and comfortable positioning when posizione seduta and sleeping after ictus

2. Moving as much as possible is important to ease muscle tightening and prevent muscle shortening.

3. Avoid cold stimulation to the body. Hot compress limbs with warm towels.

4. Regular stretching is helpful. The direction of the stretching should be opposite to the direction of the muscle tension and held at the end for at least 30 seconds.

To aiuto ictus patients ridurre muscle tone in the process of recupero, SYREBO has launched a new generation Soft Robotic guanto per la riabilitazione della mano HRC12（click to learn more)  for home riabilitazione. HRC12 has unique extend mode that can static stretch paziente’s mano to decrease muscle tone and aumentare ampiezza di movimento. Combined with soft robotic esoscheletro tecnologia and neuroscience, newly-upgraded HRC12 has stronger power to drive patients’ affected mano to execute flexion and extension. It also has fine motor allenamento that driving each finger to perform the flexion and extension. When C12 was released, it hit a lot of markets and loved by many patients with its practicality, easy-to-uso and flexibility. Its unique extend mode can effectively aiuto patients ridurre muscle tone and relieve spasms, accelerating the process of mano function riabilitazione.

Tips: When it comes to hypertonia, you should first seek guidance from therapists and doctors