An increase in the prevalence of neurological disability puts pressure on service providers to restrict costs associated with rehabilitation. Spasticity is an important neurological impairment for which many novel and expensive treatment options now exist. The antispastic effects of these techniques remain unexplored due to a paucity of valid outcome measures.
Centre for Rehabilitation and Engineering Studies, University of Newcastle, Stephenson Building, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. a.d.pandyan@ncl.ac.uk