1. Cerebral Palsy - Types and Symptoms
Based on Mosby's Medical Dictionary, Spastic Cerebral Palsy is broken up into 5 categories: 1. diplegia which affects only one side of the body, 2. hemiplegia which affects the arms or the legs, and 3. quadriplegia which affects all the limbs 4. monoplegia which affects one single limb 5. triplegia which affects three limbs (Anderson, Kenneth, et al 8) This type of CP resulted due to the damage located within the motor cortex which controls voluntary movements. ... Individuals with this type of cerebral palsy clearly have "floppy" muscles and cannot control their head; in ad...
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