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FAQ-Update: What happens if I stop treating spasticity? Will my condition worsen quickly?

Update of our FAQ Section

We will regulary update our FAQs with new articles and informations about spasticity, personal experiences and general questions.

As a rule, spasticity will worsen when you stop treatment. Muscles and tendons shorten, the joints become stiffer and incorrect posture persists permanently without therapeutic intervention. This leads to an ever-increasing restriction of movement. The declining mobility makes coping with everyday life more difficult, reduces quality of life in general and will increase pain. . According to the International Classification of Function, Disability and Health (ICF) of the World Health Organisation (WHO), most people with spasticity are likely to experience a relevant reduction in their participation in social and professional life if spasticity is not treated. 6

 

6 CF is the WHO framework for measuring health and disability at both individual and population levels. ICF was officially endorsed by all 191 WHO Member States in the Fifty-fourth World Health Assembly on 22 May 2001(resolution WHA 54.21) as the international standard to describe and measure health and disability.

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