**1. Introduction**

The focus of this chapter is the management of spasticity in CP children by demonstrating the different treatment options available to the child and his/ her family. Spasticity was defined by Lance as a "velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes (muscle tone) with exaggerated tendon jerks, resulting from hyperexcitability of the stretch reflex [1].

Treatment for spasticity was documented as early as the late nineteenth century when surgeons Abbe and Bennet discussed decreasing tone in a spastic limb through sensory rhizotomies. Different treatment modalities have been introduced over years to address the complications of spasticity in CP children.

Cerebral palsy (CP) should not be considered as a diagnosis but as a label [2]; it is an umbrella term. The definition is not sufficiently precise to guarantee agreement as to which patients to include under this label, but the additional inclusion criteria required are not yet internationally standardized. It is a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to nonprogressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain.
