Muscle spasticity

Spasticity affects muscle control, making muscles difficult to move, as if frozen, and causing an inability to control them. Neurological reflexes may last too long or be too strong. When testing the infant’s grasp reflex, the infant clenches their hand into a tight fist.

Source | Author Doctor Nikas Samuolis, reviewed by Prof. Virginijus Šapoka | Vilnius University | Faculty of Medicine | Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Oncology