Preschool Social Studies Academic Standards in High Quality Early Childhood Care and Education Settings. How to use this document. Colorado Preschool Program staff developed this document to help link the new Colorado preschool academic standards with the early.
Muscle spasm is an involuntary contraction of a muscle that can cause a great deal of pain. When the facet joints of the spine become injured or inflamed, the muscles supporting the spine can spasm causing low back pain and limitation in motion.
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Wikipedia. involuntary rigid muscle contraction, often persistent and often accompanied by pain. It usually has some underlying physical cause such as disease, strain, or injury to the muscle or nearby tissues, impairment of circulation, or a disturbance of body chemistry. The spasm may be confined to one group of muscles or it may be severe and fairly generalized, as in convulsionsconvulsion, sudden, violent, involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body, often accompanied by loss of consciousness.