A client, recovering from a spinal cord injury, has a great deal of spasticity. which medication would the nurse anticipate to relieve spasticity?

Spasticity results from the sustained muscle contractions due to an increase in excitatory influences or a decrease in inhibitory influences within the central nervous system. In this case, to relieve spasticity the nurse should anticipate Dantrolene medication. Dantrolene acts within skeletal muscles by interfering with the release of calcium from the muscle fibres.