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Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral
palsy (CP) is an umbrella-type term describing different types of disorders
impairing control of posture and movement before, during or after birth.
Cerebral palsy occurs when the brain is damaged and inaccurate messages
are sent from the brain to the muscles. This gives rise to
pathological movement patterns that get increasingly more stable as the
infant grows.
Motor
disorders (such as paralysis, paresis, disturbance of muscular
coordination, or forced movements) may sometimes involve mental, speech,
vision or hearing impairments, as well as spasmodic seizures or
disturbance of sensation.
Cerebral
palsy is a residual condition that does not worsen as the infant grows. But
its symptoms may vary, especially at early age, partly because there are
increasingly more morphological and functional relationships in the brain
that develops pathologically, and partly because the decompensation gets
more pronounced as a result of increasingly higher incongruity between the
capabilities of the nervous system and the requirements that the environment
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Moreover,
if a pathological syndrome, such as hydrocephalus, seizure, or vegetative
impairment, or an infectious disease, intoxication or a repeated damage to
the brain, also occurs, it may seem as if the disorder gets worse, but
that impression is wrong. |
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The
term cerebral palsy does not apply to any progressive hereditary diseases of the
nervous system or injury of the spinal cord or the peripheral nerves.
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