Failing to treat spasticity properly can lead to permanent deformity, or maladaptive remodeling, including contracture of tendons and small muscles as well as shortening of muscles. It’s important to treat spasticity because this condition can cause pain, affect mood, interrupt sleep and impair the mobility as well as confound a person’s ability to partake in activities of daily living, such as hygiene maintenance, using the bathroom, dressing, and eating. Major spasticity can lead to contractures, immobility, and bedsores (AKA pressure sores or pressure ulcers). The severity of spasticity runs the gamut from mild and merely annoying to major and incapacitating. Spasticity is caused by injury or insult (for example, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis or stroke) to the brain or spinal cord. Spasticity involves continuous and unwanted contractions of one or more groups of muscle. Your physician will know what dosage and treatments, if any, are right for you.īaclofen is a skeletal muscle relaxant that inhibits reflexes and muscle spasms by acting on spinal cord nerves. Please check with your physician before taking Proscar, Propecia or any other prescription medication. In other terms, people taking finasteride for BPH take around 5 mg per day for a period of several months whereas, those taking finasteride for hair loss take about 1 mg per day for a period of several months. Notably, the concentration of finasteride in Proscar is substantially higher than its concentration in Propecia. In other words, a bald man taking Proscar to treat BPH could also experience hair growth. The active ingredient in Proscar is finasteride, which is also the active ingredient in Propecia, a drug taken to promote growth in those with male-pattern baldness. In doing so, Proscar reduces the size of the prostate during the course of months and alleviates symptoms of urinary obstruction. Proscar inhibits 5α-reductase, an intracellular enzyme that converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. BPH is an uncomfortable condition, which results in urinary symptoms, such as urinary frequency, hesitancy, urgency, and weakened stream. BPH is a pathological process in which the prostate gland (found in men) compresses the urethra, slowing and/or blocking the flow of urine. Proscar (finasteride) is a medication used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
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