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Medical Marijuana for Spasticity: Treatment Insights
Spasticity is one of those symptoms that can look straightforward on paper and feel anything but straightforward in real life. Clinicians define it in technical terms, usually as a velocity-dependent increase in muscle tone that comes from upper motor neuron dysfunction. Patients describe something much more immediate: legs that stiffen while turning in bed, calves that clamp during transfers, arms that pull inward when trying to dress, painful nighttime spasms that tu