Spasticity Management Teams, Evaluations, and Tools: A Canadian Cross-Sectional Survey.

Objective: The objective of this study is to determine the physical evaluations and assessment tools used by a group of Canadian healthcare professionals treating adults with spasticity.

Methods: A cross-sectional web-based 19-question survey was developed to determine the types of physical evaluations, tone-related impairment measurements, and assessment tools used in the management of adults with spasticity. The survey was distributed to healthcare professionals from the Canadian Advances in Neuro-Orthopedics for Spasticity Congress database.

Congenital inflammatory myopathy: a demonstrative case and proposed diagnostic classification.

There have been few reports of congenital inflammatory myopathy in the literature, and most of these have been associated with congenital muscular dystrophy. We review the literature and present a case with electromyographic and muscle biopsy evidence of congenital inflammatory myopathy with onset in the perinatal period and no evidence of a congenital muscular dystrophy. There was evidence of subjective improvement following corticosteroid administration (approximately 1 mg/kg per day) with a concomitant normalization of the serum creatine kinase activity.