Why Ictus Patients Find It Hard to Move? It’s Related to Spasticity. - Centro de Ictus

As the ictus patients recover, the spasticity will increase and patients will feel resistance when move. So, what is spasticity? It is an increase in músculo tone that is the amount of tension(or resistance to movimiento) in muscles. Ictus may cause an abnormal increase in músculo tone, leading to spasticity.

Is increased músculo tone a good thing or bad thing?

In fact, we all have a certain amount of músculo tone. Normal músculo tone helps us hold our bodies upright when we are sitting and standing, ensure body movimiento control. Increased lower limb músculo tone is beneficial to help patients stand and walk, and reduce the incidence of deep vein thrombosis. However, excessive músculo tone will affect the stability of the paciente’s standing balance, the paciente’s caminar gait and make the paciente move more slowly, even resulting in dolor.

How to measure músculo tone clinically?

To check the paciente’s músculo tone, the terapeuta touches the músculo stiffness while passively flexing and stretching the paciente’s limb, feeling the resistance during passive movimiento. If the músculo becomes stiff when touched and resistance increases during passive movimiento, it is an increase in músculo tone. Clinically, there are professional scales for the assessment of músculo tone, and the most commonly used is the Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS).

What are the manifestations of músculo tone increase in ictus patients?

Take the upper limb of the affected side of ictus paciente as an example, there will be the following typical manifestations:

How to reduce músculo tone?

1. Use the safe and comfortable positioning when sitting and sleeping after ictus

2. Moving as much as possible is important to ease músculo tightening and prevent músculo shortening.

3. Avoid cold stimulation to the body. Hot compress limbs with warm towels.

4. Regular stretching is helpful. The direction of the stretching should be opposite to the direction of the músculo tension and held at the end for at least 30 seconds.

To help ictus patients reduce músculo tone in the process of recuperación, SYREBO has launched a new generation Soft Robotic Mano Rehabilitación Guante HRC12（click to learn more)  for home rehabilitación. HRC12 has unique extend mode that can static stretch paciente’s mano to decrease músculo tone and increase range of motion. Combined with soft robotic exoesqueleto technology and neuroscience, newly-upgraded HRC12 has stronger power to drive patients’ affected mano to execute flexion and extension. It also has fine motor training that driving each finger to perform the flexion and extension. When C12 was released, it hit a lot of markets and loved by many patients with its practicality, easy-to-use and flexibility. Its unique extend mode can effectively help patients reduce músculo tone and relieve spasms, accelerating the process of mano función rehabilitación.

Tips: When it comes to hypertonia, you should first seek guidance from therapists and doctors