Jeffrey Raskin, MS, MD, a neurosurgeon at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, performed the first ever computer-guided radiofrequency ablation to decrease excessive muscle tone ...

In hypertonia, muscles are constantly activated, which causes severe pain and deformity in the bones and joints, and profoundly impacts the child’s quality of life. Medications are not always ...

THE problem of the excitation-contraction link in muscle cells has long been one of the chief fields of modern muscle physiology 1–4. Of many reports in this field, one of the most interesting was the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Nuclear Factor of Activated T cells 5 (NFAT5) is a transcription factor (TF) that mediates protection from adverse effects of hypertonicity by ...

Can you recognize the signs of cervical dysfunction in your horse? Keep an eye out for these telltale signs: Muscle asymmetry Stiffness Limited neck mobility Muscle hypertonicity Changes in head/neck ...