Without treatment, upper limb spasticity can make your muscles stiffer and more painful over time. But new treatments can give you better control of your arms and help you live an active life.

The indication for adult upper limb spasticity treatment now includes elbow and forearm muscles, intrinsic hand muscles, and thumb muscles. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the ...

Table 4. Upper Extremity Fasciotomy Techniques; Compartment(s) Technique; Brachium biceps and brachialis muscles: Anterior longitudinal incision extending from the deltopectoral groove to the ...

In the first study, the researchers randomly assigned 170 patients with upper limb spasticity to receive a single injection of onabotulinum toxin A (40 units) or placebo into the thumb flexor muscles.

--Allergan, an AbbVie company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a label expansion of BOTOX ® to include eight new muscles for the treatment of upper limb ...

A review of instruments used to assess upper-limb function in patients with neuromuscular diseases found that more tools are needed to address specific diseases. In most neuromuscular diseases ...

They were hunting for genes behind a rare disease called limb girdle muscle dystrophy, in which muscles of the upper arms and legs—sound familiar?—become weak and waste away.

A trainer outlines nine of the least effective exercises for your upper arms and nine more productive alternatives.

The more obvious points of peripheral nerve entrapment in the upper extremity are discussed. These are points at which an anatomic configuration, usually a fibrous band, can cause mechanical trauma.

(RTTNews) - Allergan, an AbbVie (ABBV) company, said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a label expansion of BOTOX to include eight new muscles for the treatment of upper limb ...