Cerebral palsy is a term used to describe a group of chronic conditions affecting body movement and muscle coordination. It is caused by damage to one or more specific areas of the brain, usually occurring during fetal development; before, during, or shortly after birth; or during infancy. Thus, these disorders are not caused by problems [...]

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Be origin cerebral palsy is not one diagnosis but instead contains a spectrum of disorders with a category of tangible findings, inebriations and origins, it is not surprising that a precise diagnosis [...]

When it comes to infant cerebral palsy, it may well take a number of years for the symptoms to present themselves and very rarely will they before the child has reached the age of 3. So actually being able to provide a diagnosis of cerebral palsy in infants before this age can be extremely difficult [...]

Interested in knowing what are the causes of cerebral palsy or why this happen to a baby? How to resolve this kind of abnormality? Cerebral palsy is the result of brain damage that occur during the full development of baby’s brain in womb.
Some mothers do not know that they are pregnant they tend to [...]

Hypotonia is a condition of abnormally low muscle tone (the amount of tension or resistance to movement in a muscle), often involving reduced muscle strength. Hypotonia is not a specific medical disorder, but a potential manifestation of many different diseases and disorders that affect motor nerve control by the brain or muscle strength. Recognizing hypotonia, [...]

Currently, there are more Cerebral Palsy lawsuits in courts across America and in Europe than there are cases of Erb’s palsy, but some of the most recent successful birth injury cases have been coming from Erb’s Palsy litigation in which a child’s brachial paralysis, or arm paralysis, was preventable and the negligence of a physician [...]

Hypotonia is more a description than a diagnosis. It is most often seen in newborns (congenital) and infants, but it may persist through adolescence into adulthood. Another name for infantile hypotonia is “floppy baby syndrome.” This refers to the tendency of a hypotonic infant’s arms, legs, and head to “flop,” or dangle loosely, when they [...]

Cerebral Palsy is a condition where muscles become uncontrollable due to lack of oxygen in the brain. There are four major types of cerebral palsy: spastic, athetoid, ataxic, and mixed.
Spastic cerebral palsy commonly affects the limb area of your body. The limbs get vulnerable when you are inflicted with this type of cerebral [...]

There are different types of Cerebral Palsy affecting several people. Cerebral palsy occurs during the early stages of birth and a few months afterbirth. In fact, early detection of cerebral palsy in infants can be noticed. Cerebral palsy is not caused by problems in the muscles or nerves but due to damage to motor [...]

There are four types of cerebral palsy, and ataxic cerebral palsy is one of them. A person who has ataxic cerebral palsy has low muscle tone and their movements have poor coordination. They usually appear shaky and unsteady.
This type of cerebral palsy is quite rare in form as it affects depth perception and the [...]