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The Development and Management of Spasticity Following Traumatic Brain Injury

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Clinical Evaluation and Management of Spasticity

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) results from either a penetrating skull injury or closed trauma to the head, and is a major health problem in the United States and worldwide. Penetrating head injuries account for approx 10% of all traumatic injuries and closed head trauma for the other 90%. These injuries tend to occur more commonly in males. There is a bimodal peak of incidence, with males between 16 and 25 yr of age and people over the age of 65 yr tending to have more TBIs (1). Motor-vehicle accidents account for at least 50% of all TBIs with falls, assaults and violence, and sports and recreational accidents following. Approximately fifty to seventy-five thousand people per year in the United States suffer a severe TBI and approx one-third to one-half of those die (2). The remaining survive with varying degrees of cognitive and neurologic damage.

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Jozefczyk, P.B. (2002). The Development and Management of Spasticity Following Traumatic Brain Injury. In: Gelber, D.A., Jeffery, D.R. (eds) Clinical Evaluation and Management of Spasticity. Current Clinical Neurology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-092-6_19

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