Case report: muscle rupture after minimal trauma of the spastic muscle: three case reports of patients with spinal cord injury

Carpentier et al.¹ reported that muscle rupture is a rare complication of chronic spasticity and that to the best of their knowledge, this spasticity-related complication is not yet described in spinal cord injury patients. This is incorrect.

Snoecx et al.² carried out a study in Belgium on heterotopic calcification in traumatic paraplegic patients in 1995 and found by serial studies that there were tears of the psoas muscle that preceded the development of heterotopic bone.

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