there are a couple of posts on measuring spasticity and I just advocated the Tardieu scale on the other one before I read your comment, vaibhav yadav:

http://www.physiobob.com/forum/neuro...rth-scale.html

I agree that it is superior to the Ashworth scale. There has also been a lot of validation of the Tardieu in the last few years, even though it is actually a very old measure.