BOTOX® Treatment: Muscle Spasms

Because BOTOX® acts to block the neurotransmitters that allow muscles to contract, BOTOX® treatments have now been applied other areas in the body. BOTOX® paralyzes the affected muscles, which helps to relieve painful muscle spasms and tremors. Therefore BOTOX® has become useful for the control of muscle spasms in certain systemic and neurologically diseases that cause muscle spasms and tremors such as multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy as well as the spasticity and leg stiffness that occurs after a stroke.
 For the best possible results, BOTOX® for muscle spasms should be administered by a neurologist or rehabilitative medicine specialist who is carefully evaluating the overall musculoskeletal condition of the patient.