Clinical Outcome Assessments for Spasticity: Review, Critique, and Recommendations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Spasticity is a common feature in patients with disruptions in corticospinal pathways. However, the term is used ambiguously. Here, spasticity is defined as enhanced velocity-dependent stretch reflexes and placed within the context of deforming spastic paresis encompassing other forms of muscle overactivity.

Objective

This scoping review aims at evaluating the clinimetric quality of clinical outcome assessments (COAs) for spasticity across different pathologies and to make recommendations for their use.

Methods

A literature search was conducted to identify COAs used to assess spasticity. An international expert panel evaluated the measurement properties in the included COAs. Recommendations were based on the MDS-COA program methodology based on three criter

SUBMITTER: Gal O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11752990 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature