BOTULINUM TOXIN TREATMENT OF POSTSTROKE SPASTICITY: POSITION IN THE CONCEPT OF SUCCESSFUL REHABILITATION

Abstract

The literature review analyzed the modern concept of successful rehabilitation of functional motor impairments after stroke, in particular the need for correction of spasticity as a significant component of the disability of patients. Submitted the epidemiology, occurrence, phenomenology and diagnostics of poststroke spasticity. Reflected the general principles of treatment and selection of individual treatment strategies based on modern methods of evidence-based medicine. Discussed the possibility of using botulinum toxin A in acute stroke in the development of spasticity. There is the reasonable necessity of a system approach to the implementation of Botulinum toxin therapy in routine clinical practice of primary vascular branches the implementation of educational programs