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Treatments for Spasticity and Pain in Multiple Sclerosis: a Systematic Review This is a repository copy of Treatments for spasticity and pain in multiple sclerosis: a systematic review . White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/1776/ Monograph: Beard, S.M., Hunn, A. and Wight, J. (2003) Treatments for spasticity and pain in multiple sclerosis: a systematic review. Technical Report. Gray Publishing , Tunbridge Wells. ISSN 1366-5278 Reuse Unless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version - refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. 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Printed on acid-free paper in the UK by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. O2 Health Technology Assessment 2003; Vol. 7: No. 40 Abstract Treatments for spasticity and pain in multiple sclerosis: a systematic review S Beard, A Hunn and J Wight School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, UK Objectives: To identify the drug treatments currently designed specifically to evaluate the alleviation of pain available for the management of spasticity and pain in in patients with MS and there was no consistency multiple sclerosis (MS), and to evaluate their clinical and regarding the use of validated outcome measures. It cost-effectiveness. was suggested that, although expensive, the use of Data sources: Electronic bibliographic databases, intrathecal baclofen may be associated with significant National Research Register, MRC Clinical Trials Register savings in hospitalisation costs in relation to bed-bound and the US National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials patients who are at risk of developing pressure sores, Register. thus enhancing its cost-effectiveness. No studies of Review methods: Systematic searches identified 15 cost-effectiveness were identified in the review interventions for the treatment of spasticity and 15 of pain. There is evidence, albeit limited, of the interventions for treatment of pain. The quality and clinical effectiveness of baclofen, dantrolene, outcomes of the studies were evaluated. Reviews of diazepam, tizanidine, intrathecal baclofen and BT the treatment of spasticity and pain when due to other and of the potential cost-effectiveness of intrathecal aetiologies were also sought. baclofen in the treatment of spasticity Results: There is limited evidence of the effectiveness in MS. of four oral drugs for spasticity: baclofen, dantrolene, Conclusions: Many of the interventions identified are diazepam and tizanidine. Tizanidine appears to be no not licensed for the alleviation of pain or spasticity in more effective than comparator drugs such as baclofen MS and the lack of evidence relating to their and has a slightly different side-effects profile. Despite effectiveness may also limit their widespread use. claims that it causes less muscle weakness, there was Indeed, forthcoming information relating to the use of very little evidence that tizanidine performed any cannabinoids in MS may result in there being better better in this respect than other drugs, although it is evidence of the effectiveness of new treatments than of more expensive. The findings of this review are any of the currently used drugs. It may therefore be of consistent with reviews of the same treatments for value to carry out double-blind randomised controlled spasticity derived from other aetiologies. There is good trials of interventions used in current practice, where evidence that both botulinum toxin (BT) and intrathecal outcomes could include functional benefit and impact baclofen are effective in reducing spasticity, and both on quality of life. Further research into the are associated with functional benefit.
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