Abstract

LOPEZ LIRLED, Lira  and  PIMENTEL RAMIREZ, María Luisa. Botox: A futile treatment for patients under twelve years of age suffering from muscle spasticity. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2008, vol.8, n.2-3. ISSN 1727-8120.

The following article presents the research of multiple investigators about the futility of Botox when this drug is applied on patients younger than twelve years old and the effects of the body of the subjects. At the same time invites to amply the vision on the attention of disability, taking the person as a complete being, placing his or hers personal history, his or hers capacities and the life phase he or she is living actually. Also shows that the patients with spasticity younger than twelve years old are people who is on process of developing his or hers capabilities and potencialize them, the spasticity is a sequel of injury on cortical spinal routes that manifest hypertonic, hiperreflex and pathologic reflexes that limit the mobility but do not impede it, so the treatment must be beyond corporal expressions that the patient made evident during the voluntary movement realization.

Keywords : Muscle spasticity [therapy]; disabled children; medical futility [ethics].

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