Types-Classifications
Causes a lot of stiffness and difficulty moving around
What is spastic cerebral palsy?
A disorder that affects the muscles, movement, and motor skills as a result of brain damage
What is cerebral palsy?
Every child with cerebral palsy may experience different ______?
What is symptoms?
3 types of therapy essential for patients diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy
What is physical, occupational, and speech/ language therapy?
First step on the screening and diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy
What is developmental monitoring?
Involves uncontrolled and involuntary movements of the body
What is dyskinetic (athetoid) cerebral palsy?
Infection(1) during pregnancy that is a risk factor for cerebral palsy?
What is chickenpox/ rubella/ cytomegalovirus/ toxoplasmosis/ chorioamnionitis/ placental infection?
When children experience delayed motor skills, stiffness in the muscles, or even shaking which is sometimes referred to as?
What is spasticity?
3 types of medications commonly used by patients with Cerebral Palsy
What are anticholinergics, antiseizures, and muscle relaxants?
Main red flag seen during developmental monitoring
What is motor / movement delay?
Name the 4 main types of cerebral palsy
What is spastic, dyskinetic, ataxic, and mixed?
position that puts baby at higher risk to develop Cerebral palsy at birth
What is breech?
Age at which his head lags when you pick him up feels stiff, overextends his back and neck when cradled in arms, and/or when you pick him up, his legs get stiff and they cross or scissor
What is younger than 6 months of age?
Surgery for Cerebral Palsy patients who have severe spasms that don't respond to medications
What is selective dorsal rhizotomy?
Type of medical diagnostic test that shows abnormal results in about 85% of children with Cerebral Palsy
What is MRI test?
Name the type of CP that causes you to have a bad balance
What is ataxic cerebral palsy?
What is the prevalence of children with Cerebral Palsy in the US?
What is 1 in 323?
Age at which he crawls in a lopsided manner, pushing off with one hand and leg while dragging the opposite hand and leg, and/or he scoots around on his buttocks or hops on his knees, but does not crawl on all fours
What is older than 10 months of age?
Name three types of alternative therapies
What is Animal Assisted therapy, adaptive sports and acupuncture
Type of test that can detect Cerebral Palsy during pregnancy
What is ultrasound?
cerebral palsy in which there is paralysis that affects 2 limbs, usually the legs.
What is diplegia?
Gestational age at which baby is more prone to develop cerebral palsy
What is premature (before 37 weeks)?
Cerebral Palsy related to brain damage that occurred before or during birth is called
What is congenital Cerebral Palsy?
Name three types of equipment used to improve function and outcome.
What is Baclofen pumps, hearing devices and vagus nerve stimulators
Main movement milestones checked for diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy
What is rolling over, sitting, standing, and walking?