Sunday, June 24, 2012

Cerebral palsy and birth injuries

Cerebral paralyze is a medical term designating a succession of neurological conditions that cause natural disability. The term cerebral refers to the duty of the brain that has been unnatural while palsy designates muscle paralysis.  Although there are different types of CP and the symptoms swerve considerably from one patient to a different, generally speaking the condition consists in the incapacity to control certain muscles of the corpse due to damages occurred in the brain encompassing the time of birth.

The symptoms of the malady are usually not visible immediately in relation to birth. They become obvious later, only by the age of three the full age of affected individuals are diagnosed. The chiefly common signs include:

The baby begins to creep, walk or speak later than natural

Has difficulty feeding, sucking and swallowing

Has heteroclite muscles tone

Lays down or crawls in uncommon ways

 Uses only one side of the body

Has hearing or vision problems

Has problems through coordination and balance

Suffers from seizure or muscle spasm

Depending on these symptoms doctors were expert to establish different types of cerebral deaden. The most common ones include:

Spastic hemiplegeia: the infant has muscle stiffness on one party of the body. It usually affects deserved one hand, arm or leg.

Spastic diplegia: the humble limbs are affected, the muscles of the legs are tight, form walking difficult

Spastic quadriplegia: the legs, deeds of valor and body are affected, and the bantling most likely has mental retardation

Ataxic cerebral deaden: the child's balance is affected, he has difficulties in performing severe movements

Dyskinetic cerebral palsy: the den body is affected by muscle problems, the suckling will have difficulties in controlling his sound but the intelligence is normal

What causes cerebral paralysis?

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