Spasticity
The Spasticity Clinic at Monroe Carell is designed for children with increased muscle tightness and other spasticity symptoms. Spasticity management is complex. It’s important that you seek comprehensive care from an expert team that understands the long-term effects of spasticity on your child and family.
Our team includes experts in all established methods of spasticity treatment and pioneers in new treatment techniques. Our goal is to provide care that will optimize your child’s physical abilities. We provide ongoing support that includes follow-up visits with our team members. Our hope is to enable your child to reach his or her fullest potential.
Conditions We Treat
- Chorea
- Hereditary spastic paraplegia
- Hypertonia
- Movement disorders
- Muscle contractures
- Spasticity
Meet Your Care Team
Your care team also includes a fully dedicated patient care coordinator.
Shady ElmaraghiMD
- Fractures, Hand Surgery, Nerve, Orthopaedics, Peripheral Nerve, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Reconstructive Microsurgery
Alice P. LawrenceMD
- Cerebral Palsy, Child Development, Developmental Medicine, Neonatology, Neurodevelopmental Follow up After NICU Hospitalization, Pediatric Developmental Medicine
Nathaniel LempertBS, MD
- Muscular and Movement Disorders, Orthopaedics, Pediatric Fractures, Pediatric Orthopaedics, Pediatric Orthopaedics and Surgery
Robert P. NaftelMD
- Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, Hydrocephalus, Movement Disorders, Neurologic Surgery, Neurological Surgery, Neurosciences
Shai C. BynumPNP
- Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Child Development, Developmental Delay, Developmental Medicine, Pediatric Developmental Medicine
Catherine H. MizeMSN, FNP
- Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Child Development, Developmental Delay, Developmental Medicine, Pediatric Developmental Medicine
Why Choose the Spasticity Clinic at Monroe Carell
- Access to specialists
In one visit you will see several pediatric board-certified specialists. Your visit may include time with a physiatrist, neurologist, developmental pediatrician, physical therapist, neurosurgeon and orthopaedic surgeon. Our specialists provide personalized care for your child’s unique movement problems. Together, we determine the best treatment options. We schedule multiple sessions this way to save you time and trips to our clinic.
- Unique care
We are the only multidisciplinary movement disorder clinic in Tennessee. Ours is the only children’s hospital in Tennessee that offers selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) for children with spasticity. We also offer baclofen pump surgery and ongoing management.
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Tests, Treatments and Services
We offer a full range of tests, treatments and services, including:
- Bracing
- Combined dorsal and ventral rhizotomy
- Intrathecal baclofen pump placement
- Physical therapy