This article is a personal account of a patient who was diagnosed with arachnoid cysts and was given Baclofen as a form of skeletal muscle relaxant. It also provides valuable information regarding SMRs.
Baclofen: The Dependable Skeletal Muscle Relaxant for MS Patients
This article is about a disease that is affecting thousands of people in the United States. Multiple Sclerosis or MS is a chronic and potentially incapacitating disorder. This disorder affects the central nervous system in which pain and spasticity are the most common symptoms. However, one medication was identified by numerous researches that can decrease the spasticity of MS patients. Baclofen is a muscle relaxant commonly used to decrease spasticity related to spinal cord injuries, or other neurological diseases such as MS.