Kontakt 2006, 8(1):55-57 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2006.009

Phenomenon named spasticity and the most recent knowledge concerning its management in nursing careNursing

Petr Šifta

Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta tělesné výchovy a sportu, katedra anatomie a biomechaniky

One in thousand inhabitants of our planet suffers from spasticity. Interestingly, the price of the research and therapy of this syndrome has already been as high as 11.2 milliard dollars. Spasticity is frequently considered as a disease, but it is actually a syndrome accompanying a number of diseases and its cause is not easy to define. Due to this, characteristic manifestations are described or diseases are listed, which it occurs in. Spastic syndrome should be understood as a part of disorders resulting from a central lesion, which causes disorders of the mobility (paresis, plegia), pathological synergy, spastic dystonia and pathological hypertonia - spasticity. An integral part of the treatment of this syndrome is the nursing care, which is necessary for the whole period of the patient hospitalization at the acute stage, and which plays a principal role in the future development of the patient health condition. The following text is aimed at the evaluation and treatment of spastic syndrome with taking into account the nursing care, which is frequently omitted and underestimated. The disorders can be categorized depending on the site of their origination into central and spinal or into syndrome of the upper motoneurone with positive or negative symptoms.

Keywords: spasticity; nursing care for spastic syndrome

Published: May 26, 2006  Show citation