spastic cerebral palsy

He suffered from severe spastic cerebral palsy from an early age.

Not all patients with spastic cerebral palsy benefit from SDR.

Spastic cerebral palsy affects 70 percent to 80 percent of patients, causing muscles to stiffen and contract permanently.

Magnesium sulfate for tocolysis and risk of spastic cerebral palsy in premature children born to women without preeclampsia.

Scissor gait is a form of gait abnormality primarily associated with spastic cerebral palsy.

Spastic cerebral palsy is by far the most common type of overall cerebral palsy, occurring in 80% of all cases.

Botulinum toxin A as an adjunct to treatment in the management of the upper limb in children with spastic cerebral palsy (Update).

Spastic cerebral palsy, the most common form of CP, causes the muscles to be tense and rigid, and movements are slow and difficult.

Despite this, some of the same anti-spasticity medications used in spastic cerebral palsy are sometimes used to try to treat HSP symptomatology.

Spastic quadriplegia, also known as spastic tetraplegia, is a subset of spastic cerebral palsy that affects all four limbs (both arms and legs).

Larry Perry has severe spastic cerebral palsy and can neither walk nor speak, but is able to hold a microphone and interview subjects by allowing them to talk freeform.

There is at least one known AGS patient, presenting with spastic cerebral palsy and associated intracranial calcification, that is of normal intelligence at age 19.

Most common in patients with spastic cerebral palsy, the individual is often also forced to walk on tiptoe unless the plantarflexor muscles are released by an orthaepedic surgical procedure.

In spasticity, rhizotomy precisely targets and destroys the damaged nerves that don't receive gamma amino butyric acid, which is the core problem for people with spastic cerebral palsy.

It is usually in response to prolonged hypertonic spasticity in a concentrated muscle area, such as is seen in the tightest muscles of people with conditions like spastic cerebral palsy.

Athetoid dyskinetic cerebral palsy is a non-spastic, extrapyramidal form of cerebral palsy (spastic cerebral palsy, in contrast, results from damage to the brain's corticospinal pathways).

Modafinil is also used off-label to treat sedation and fatigue in many conditions, including depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, myotonic dystrophy, opioid-induced sleepiness, spastic cerebral palsy, and Parkinson's disease.

"And in Oakland, the teacher of a girl with spastic cerebral palsy submitted a proposal to Give Cindy a Voice for a $10,000 piece of equipment that would help the girl communicate with her classmates."

Rhizotomy is usually performed on the pediatric spastic cerebral palsy population between the ages of 2 and 6, since this is the age range where orthopedic deformities from spasticity have not yet occurred, or are minimal.

Spastic cerebral palsy, sometimes also termed bilateral spasticity, is the type of cerebral palsy wherein spasticity (also known in some versions of colloquial English as "muscle tightness") is either the dominant or exclusive impairment present.

The selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) for spastic cerebral palsy has been the main use of rhizotomy for neurosurgeons specialising in spastic CP since the 1980s; in this surgery, the spasticity-causing nerves are isolated and then targeted and destroyed.

Little was one of the first to bridge the gap between neurology and orthopaedics, and his important work continues to impact both of these fields, including the fact of continually-increasing cooperation between orthopaedic surgeons and neurosurgeons in today's management of spastic cerebral palsy and similar neuromuscular disabilities.

Ataxic cerebral palsy is caused by damage to cerebellar structures, differentiating it from the other two forms of cerebral palsy, which are spastic cerebral palsy (damage to cortical motor areas and underlying white matter) and athetoid cerebral palsy (damage to basal ganglia).

Often reserved for spastic cerebral palsy, intrathecally-administered baclofen is done through an intrathecal pump implanted just below the skin of the stomach with a tube connected directly to the base of the spine, where it bathes the appropriate nerves using a dose about one thousand times smaller than that required by orally-administered baclofen.