Spastic Paralysis
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form of paralysis in which the part of the nervous system that controls coordinated movement of the voluntary muscles is disabled.
IAHSP
spastic paralysis, infantile onset ascending
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Alternate Names : Spastic paralysis, Paralysis - spastic, Spastic hemiplegia, Spastic diplegia, Spastic quadriplegia
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Spastic paralysis; Paralysis - spastic; Spastic hemiplegia; Spastic diplegia; Spastic quadriplegia
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Spastic paralysis
A paralysis in which the affected muscles are contracted with rigidity and stiffness of the limb.
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Symptoms may include motor function deterioration, dementia, mental retardation, spastic paralysis, dysarthria (poorly articulated speech), spasticity (stiffness of the limbs), ocular (eye) problems, and athetosis (involuntary, ...
Synonym(s): Familial Spastic Paralysis
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Flaccid paralysis gradually changes over hours or days to spastic paralysis with increased deep tendon reflexes due to loss of descending inhibition. Later, if the lumbosacral cord is intact, flexor muscle spasms appear and autonomic reflexes return.
The onset time for Acute Mercury Poisoning is one week or more, at which time the symptoms of numbness, weakness of the legs, spastic paralysis and impaired vision are noted. Blindness and coma are extreme symptoms of the poisoning.
A syndrome that results from compression of one side of the spinal cord, above the tenth thoracic vertebrae and is characterized by spastic paralysis on the body's injured side and loss of postural sense and the senses of pain and heat on the other ...
In 1861 he presented the first complete description of congenital cerebral spastic paralysis, which came to be called Little's disease and is now known to be a form of spastic cerebral palsy. [Merriam-Webster].
As the condition progresses, paralysis may develop that is associated with increased muscle stiffness (rigidity) and restricted movements (spastic paralysis).
And if you have muscle spasms (spastic paralysis) or contracted joints, you're subject to repeated trauma from friction and shear forces.
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Infantile spastic paralysis, infantile diplegia, or as it is sometimes called Little's disease, is a birth palsy caused by injury from protracted labour, the use of forceps or other causes.
 See also: Paralysis, Symptom, Weakness, Dementia, Kidney
  
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