There is no curable or preventive treatment for HSP, except for antispasmodic drugs to reduce muscle spasms.
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a hereditary degenerative disorder affecting the corticospinal tracts (long never fibers that supply the upper and lower limbs) within the spinal cord.
Family clinical history and physical and neurological examinations are the first tools in HSP diagnosis.
Good exercise activities for paraplegics are upper body strength training, if they like to play sports and are still active they can play basketball or tennis too.
Paraplegia - paralysos of the lower body. (source- google.com)
Paraplegia occurs after injury to the lower spinal cord
The word paraplegia has Greek origins. It comes from a Greek word that translates to half striking. Paraplegia is generally caused by an injury to the spinal cord.
While the disease is incurable, significant improvement has been reported in the condition of TSP patients treated with corticosteroids
Spastic Ink was created in 1993.
Spastic Ink ended in 2004.
Short for spastic. Spastic means to be jumpy, or maybe jittery. The opposite of spastic would be easy going.
Paraplegia is caused by trauma or disease of the spinal cord below the cervical portion of the spinal cord.
The destruction of the lumbar spine in association with rheumatoid arthritis rarely is severe enough to cause paraplegia.