A medication used for treating muscle tension or spasm.
A drug which reduces contractions in the muscles, e.g. baclofen.
Drug that reduces the contractility of muscle fibers by blocking the transmission of nerve impulses at neuromuscular junctions, by increasing the time between contractions of fibers, by decreasing the excitability of the motor end plate, by interfering with nerve synapses in the central nervous system, or by interfering with calcium release from muscle or by other actions; the drugs are used in the treatment of muscle spasm and as adjuncts to anesthesia for certain surgical procedures.
Drugs used to relieve pain caused by sprains, spasms, or injuries to skeletal muscles. Skeletal muscle relaxants work by relaxing muscles to relieve stiffness, pain, and spasm. Most muscle relaxants work by acting on the central nervous system. Muscle relaxants include carisoprodol, chlorzoxazone, and methocarbamol. Muscle relaxants can impair a person’s ability to drive.
An agent that reduces tension in muscles. Drugs such as chlormezanone, diazepam, and mephensin are used to relieve skeletal muscular spasms in various spastic conditions, parkinsonism, and tetanus. Other drugs, e.g. gallamine, suxamethonium, and tubocurarine, paralyze voluntary muscles and are used in addition to anesthetics to relax the muscles during surgical operations.
These drugs produce partial or complete paralysis of skeletal muscle. Drugs in clinical use are all reversible and are used to help insert a breathing tube into the trachea (endotracheal tube) during general anaesthesia and artificial ventilation of the lungs. The only commonly-used depolarising drug is succinylcholine which has a rapid onset of action and lasts approximately three minutes. Non-depolarising muscle relaxants such as dantrolene and diazepam are used in the relief of skeletal muscle spasms in tetanus, parkinsonism and spastic disorders.
A drug or therapeutic treatment that specifically relieves muscular tension.