De Gooijer-van de Groep, K.L. (author), De Vlugt, E. (author), De Groot, J.H. (author), Van der Heijden-Maessen, H.C.M. (author), Wielheesen, D.H.M. (author), Van Wijlen-Hempel, R.M.S. (author), Arendzen, J.H. (author), Meskers, C.G.M. (author) Background Spastic paresis in cerebral palsy (CP) is characterized by increased joint stiffness that may be of neural origin, i.e. improper muscle activation caused by e.g. hyperreflexia or non-neural origin, i.e. altered tissue viscoelastic properties (clinically: “spasticity” vs. “contracture”). Differentiation between these components is hard...
journal article 2013
