Efficacy of Myofascial Release Technique in Comparison with Passive Stretching in Reducing Spasticity in children with Cerebral Palsy*

Bhattacharya, Ujwal

doi:10.18535/jmscr/v5i11.120

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“…Passive stretching was included in the one of study to cerebral palsy patient. 26 In one of the article, stretching by resting hand splint was given to finger flexors in chronic hemiparetic patients for four weeks. 16 There were two studies done which examined the immediate effect of single session of muscle stretching 20-30 minutes on hypertonic calf muscle.…”

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“…The study concluded based on the analysis of MAS, the passive stretching is superior than MFR. 26 All the articles which we reviewed included various outcome measures. Nine articles used MAS as an outcome measure for measuring grades of spasticity, five studies used PROM as an outcome measure, four studies used EMG parameters as an outcome measure and one article used a spatial temporal gait parameter.…”

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Effect of Stretching to Relieve Spasticity in Neurological Conditions- A Systematic Review

Bhilwade¹,

Ganvir

2020

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Background- Stretching is most commonly used technique to reduce spasticity. There are various techniques in reducing spasticity in neurological conditions. Objective- To investigate the literature evidence for the effect of stretching on spasticity in neurological conditions. Data sources- A systematic review of all literature found in last 20 years are related to the different techniques of stretching to reduce spasticity (keywords: stretching, spasticity) from PubMed, Google scholar, Science direct and Cochrane database of systematic reviews. Electronic searching was used to find the source literature using definitive keywords. Conclusion- There are the wide variety of the studies investigating the effect of stretching to relieve spasticity in neurological conditions. The further studies can be done to investigate the long-term effects of stretching to reduce spasticity.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%