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Prevalence Of Spasticity-Related Pain In Children/Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy, Florian Heinen, Michaela Bonfert, Petr Kanovsky, A Sebastian Schroeder, Henry Chambers, Edward Dabrowski, Thorin Geister, Angelika Hanschmann, Michael Althaus, Marta Banach, Deborah Gaebler-Spira
Prevalence Of Spasticity-Related Pain In Children/Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy, Florian Heinen, Michaela Bonfert, Petr Kanovsky, A Sebastian Schroeder, Henry Chambers, Edward Dabrowski, Thorin Geister, Angelika Hanschmann, Michael Althaus, Marta Banach, Deborah Gaebler-Spira
Conference Presentation Abstracts
Introduction: This analysis determined the prevalence and intensity of spasticity-related pain (SRP) in children/adolescents (C/As) with cerebral palsy (CP).
Patients and methods: Baseline data from the prospective incobotulinumtoxinA trials TIM, TIMO and XARA were pooled. In all three studies, SRP was assessed in C/As aged 2–17 years with lower limb (LL) and/or upper limb (UL) spasticity using the Questionnaire on Pain caused by Spasticity (QPS); both self-reports (direct or via interviewer) and parent/caregiver (P/C) observer reports were included. A C/A was considered to have SRP if any QPS key item score was rated >0 at baseline. Individual QPS modules were …