Ashworth Scales are the most widely used tests to assess the severity of muscle spasticity.
These scales offer qualitative and subjective information; consequently, there are issues …

Abstract The Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) is a clinical scale used to assess muscle
spasticity. While the evidence indicates that the reliability of the MAS is better in the upper …

Objective: To quantify agreement between three clinically usable methods of measuring
spasticity. Methods: Patients with a first stroke who had no useful functional movement in the …

Abstract The Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) is commonly used in clinical practice for
grading spasticity. However, it was modified recently by omitting grade '1+'of the MAS and …

Introduction Spasticity may be defined as a velocity-sensitive increase in the resistance of
muscles to passive stretch associated with exaggerated tendon jerks resulting from upper …

Spasticity is an important cause of neurological disability, and many new treatments are
emerging to treat it. To assess any therapy, a consistent and reproducible method of …

The measurement of spasticity is part of the neurological examination of patients with
disorders of the central nervous system. Recently, the Modified Modified Ashworth Scale …

The Modified Modified Ashworth Scale (MMAS) is a clinical instrument for measuring
spasticity. Few studies have been performed on the reliability of the MMAS. The aim of the …

Patients with neurological conditions may be affected by spasticity. The Modified Modified
Ashworth Scale (MMAS) is a clinical tool used to measure spasticity. The purpose of the …

We undertook this investigation to determine the interrater reliability of manual tests of elbow
flexor muscle spasticity graded on a modified Ashworth scale. We each independently …