Post-stroke patients generally suffer from unbearable pain relating to spasticity, making life miserable. But, a new discovery perhaps may soon be able to provide a better quality of life for people suffering after a stroke.
Just go through repeated treatments of botulinum toxin type — BoNTA or Botox ‘ for over one year and see the results. It is claimed to significant reduce in spasticity, pain frequency and average pain intensity in upper limbs after suffering from a stroke.
Now, with it, a post-stroke patient may not have to suffer from spasticity — a condition that disables a person leaving the muscles and tendons permanently shortened, inhibiting movement as a result.
Allison Brashear, M.D., professor and chairman of neurology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and head of the spasticity clinic at Wake Forest Baptist said,
In the clinical setting, limb stiffness and pain are the most commonly reported symptoms of spasticity following a stroke, and relief of spasticity-related pain is a priority treatment goal for many patients.
It seems to be better to try with the new treatments then suffering either from the unbearable pain or from systemic side effects ‘ like sedation, mental confusion, dizziness and muscle weakness ‘ arising out of using many oral anti-spasticity medications.
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