Muscle Excitability Scale for the assessment of spastic reflexes in spinal cord injury: development and evaluation.

Study Design: A psychometric study.

Objectives: To introduce a novel simple tool designed to evaluate the intensity of the phasic (dynamic) component of spastic motor behavior in spinal cord injury (SCI) people and to assess its reliability and validity.

Setting: The study was developed in the Spinal Cord Unit at University Hospital Motol and Paraple Centre in Prague, Czech Republic.