Treatment of spastic syndrome

Spastic syndrome is a neurological syndrome manifested as increased muscular tone and is characterized by the increase of resistance of muscle or muscle group to the passive stretching. As a result the patient’s muscles are not able to contract normally, gradually mummify, there is no possibility to bend and stretch the joint, eventually the extremities cannot function normally.

The spastic syndrome can arise through the reason of head and back trauma, infantile cerebral paralysis, previous neuroinfections, vascular diseases of brain and spinal marrow, disseminated sclerosis, neurogenerative diseases.

At the spastic syndrome antispastic drugs and rehabilitation program are prescribed, however, with a severe spastic syndrome these measures give only a partial effect.

For the treatment of the severe spastic syndrome two main methods are used:

● intrathecal therapy with baclofen as the implantation of baclofen pump, which decreases the skeletal muscles tone influencing on biochemical brain receptors
● posterior selective rhizotomy, whose essence consists in crossing a definite portion of sensitive spinal cord nerve roots