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Alternate Names : Spastic paralysis, Paralysis - spastic, Spastic hemiplegia, Spastic diplegia, Spastic quadriplegia
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Encephalopathy Spastic quadriplegia Severe mental retardation Progressively small head Irritability
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spastic quadriplegia ("quad" means four): spastic movements in all four limbs (both arms and legs)
spastic hemiplegia ("hemi" means half): spasticity affecting one half, or one side, of the body (for example, the right arm and right leg) ...
If all four limbs and the trunk are affected (spastic quadriplegia or total body involved), the muscles of the mouth and tongue may also be affected.
Athetoid: ...
Spastic quadriplegia (inability to use and control movements of the arms and legs) can develop in the later stages of the disorder. Blindness is also observed, and this is usually due to a condition called optic atrophy.
In the most severe cases, all four limbs and the trunk are affected (spastic quadriplegia).
Athetotic cerebral palsy. About one in five people with cerebral palsy have this form, which is also referred to as extrapyramidal cerebral palsy.
Abnormal reflexes
Confusion
Involvement of all four arms and legs (spastic quadriplegia)
Weakness of the face, arms, and legs (upper motor neuron syndromes) ...
Spastic paralysis; Paralysis - spastic; Spastic hemiplegia; Spastic diplegia; Spastic quadriplegia
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Children with spastic quadriplegia have other problems due to extensive brain damage. These include swallowing difficulties, speech abnormalities, visual impairment, hearing impairment, intellectual dysfunction and seizures.
athetoid (dyskinetic) cerebral palsy, where there is increased and decreased muscle tone and speech problems
spastic quadriplegia, the most severe type, ...
Symptoms and associated abnormalities of encephaloceles may include hydrocephalus (excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain), spastic quadriplegia (paralysis of the arms and legs), microcephaly (abnormally small head), ...
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pregnancy, premature, proteinuria, psychotherapy, respiratory, Rh factor, rhesus factor, rubella, seizure, sensory integration therapy, shaken baby syndrome, spastic cerebral palsy, spastic diplegia, spastic hemiplegia, spastic quadriplegia, ...
 See also: Plegia, Symptom, Hemiplegia, Palsy, Seizures
  
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