Upper limb spasticity is a painful condition caused by extremely tight muscles that can't be controlled. It's often a side effect of stroke, neurological disease or brain injury, but a new type of ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox, Allergan) to ease upper limb spasticity in children and adolescents aged 2 to 17 years, the company announced. Common ...

Botulinum toxin type A was first used for the treatment of spasticity in 1989. A small uncontrolled study of treatment of upper limb spasticity after stroke reported encouraging benefits, including ...

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 ...

Actavis plc ACT received positive news on the regulatory front with the FDA expanded Botox’s label for the treatment of adults with upper limb spasticity to include two thumb muscles (flexor pollicis ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA; Allergan) for the treatment of upper limb spasticity in pediatric patients 2-17 years of age. The approval was based on ...

— Achieved key co-primary endpoint on efficacy, with 500U dose demonstrating statistically significant difference from placebo in the Modified Ashworth Score (MAS) improvement from baseline — ...

Many stroke patients suffer from spasticity of the arm that cause pain and impaired sensorimotor function. But there are ways of identifying such patients ahead of time so that they can obtain the ...

Henry Winkler, known for his television role as Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli, made it a happy day for many people in the Triangle Tuesday who suffer from upper limb spasticity. Henry Winkler, known ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has approved a label expansion for Botox to include eight new muscles and the use of ultrasound for the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Allergan announced that the FDA has approved its supplemental biologics application for Botox, or ...