Pediatric Spasticity Clinic

We provide comprehensive evaluation and coordinated, ongoing treatment for children and teens who have complex cases of spasticity - a chronic state of tight or stiff muscle tone that interferes with a person's mobility. These symptoms can make dressing, eating, walking and other everyday activities very difficult for patients and caregivers, and can interfere with speech. Severe, long-term spasticity may also lead to muscle contracture, causing joints to bend at a fixed position.

Spasticity is one of the hallmark symptoms of cerebral palsy. It also can result from a stroke, traumatic brain or spinal cord injury, anoxic brain damage, severe head injury and some metabolic disorders. 

We coordinate care through all phases of treatment - from medication, leg braces and therapy to surgery and rehabilitation. Neurosurgical procedures like selective dorsal rhizotomy and baclofen pump placement - combined with orthopedic surgery and intensive physical rehabilitation therapy - can improve the quality of life for children with spasticity.