Wolfson Children's Spasticity Clinic treats infants, children and adolescents with spasticity – a disorder characterized by increase muscle tone that creates limitations in function of the limb(s) that a child cannot control and overcome. The condition is most often seen in children born with cerebral palsy, those who have suffered severe head or spine trauma, or in patients who have had a stroke.

The Wolfson Children’s Rehabilitation weekly Spasticity Clinic, which evaluates and treats children from throughout the state and beyond, includes pediatric neurosurgeons, a pediatric physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, orthopaedic surgeons, a nurse practitioner and physical and occupational therapists. Our multidisciplinary team evaluates every patient’s case during a monthly conference to provide a personalized treatment plan.

We often treat spasticity through a combination of physical and occupational therapies and/or oral medications. When these therapies are no longer effective, or in cases with intense muscle tightness, there are other, more aggressive options, including Botox injections, use of the Baclofen Pump to administer continuous administration of a muscle relaxant, orthopaedic surgery procedures or rhizotomy surgery.