Definition of Spastics. Meaning of Spastics. Synonyms of Spastics

- cerebral palsy. The Scottish Council for the Care of Spastics was founded in 1946, and the Spastics Society, an English charity for people with cerebral...
- Spasticity (from Gr**** spasmos- 'drawing, pulling') is a feature of altered skeletal muscle performance with a combination of paralysis, increased tendon...
- disorders, see cerebral palsy Spastic (word), a pejorative used against disabled people Scope (charity), formerly known as The Spastics Society "Spasticus Autisticus"...
- merged with the British Council for the Welfare of Spastics to become The Spastics Society. The Spastics Society provided sheltered workshops and day centres...
- Spastics Society of India has since changed names and is currently called ADAPT (Able Disable All People Together). Many of the state level spastics societies...
- organization called itself The Spastics Society. However, the charity changed its name to Scope in 1994 due to the term spastics having become enough of a...
- Spastic gait is a form of gait abnormality. It is caused by lesions in the corticospinal tract. A unilateral spastic gait presents with the affected leg...
- Spastic quadriplegia, also known as spastic tetraplegia, is a subset of spastic cerebral palsy that affects all four limbs (both arms and legs). Compared...
- Spastic hemiplegia is a neuromuscular condition of spasticity that results in the muscles on one side of the body being in a constant state of contraction...
- include spastic diplegia, spastic hemiplegia, spastic quadriplegia, and in cases of single limb involvement, spastic monoplegia. Spastic cerebral palsy affects...