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Cerebral Palsy : Types of Cerebral Palsy

If someone you know and love has cerebral palsy, it can be incredibly hard to deal with. Not only do these individuals experience pain and difficulty making friends or moving, but it can take a lot to care for someone with cerebral palsy. They may need help with everything from eating to changing their clothes. Educating and caring for someone with this medical condition takes a lot of time, energy, and funds. If the condition could have been prevented, then a Maryland lawyer can help you receive compensation that will help you take care of your loved one and ensure they have everything they need. The following are some basic facts about the different types of cerebral palsy.

Different kinds of cerebral palsy affect different parts of a person's body. Thus, the classifications are often based around the areas that are most affected and the extent of the condition. For example, some forms of cerebral palsy are categorized based upon the movement issue and others are labeled according to the affected piece of the body.

If you have a movement issue, then you most likely have spastic or athetoid cerebral palsy. spastic cerebral palsy is when a person's muscles can not relax. Athetoid cerebral pasly is when a person can not control how or when they move their muscles. At first, it can be hard to determine whether or not a baby or infant has cerebral palsy because their head is floppy at first. However, if this floppiness never goes away, then spasticity could be the culprit or cause of this development.

The most common forms of cerebral palsy that are affected by the body parts involved are diplegia, hemiplegia, and quadriplegia. Hemiplegia is a condition that affects one arm and one leg on the same side of the body. When the condition affects a person's legs, it is called diplegia. If all four of your extremities – both arms and legs – are affected along with such areas as the next, then you are said to have quadriplegia.

Another common term of classification when it comes to cerebral palsy is ataxia. This term is given to those who have coordination issues as well as balance issues. Additionally, it is important to realize that different individuals with the condition will have different motor skills.

If someone you love has cerebral palsy, it helps to know the type they have so you can maximize their treatment, education, and social activities. Knowledge really is power in this world: the more you know, the better prepared you will be.

Spastic

Spastic Cerebral Palsy is the most common, and can be further classified by what parts of the body are affected. Spastic hemiplegia indicates one side of the body is more affected than the other. Spastic diplegia tells us the lower half of the body is more affected than the upper half. Spastic quadriplegia means the whole body and all its limbs are equally affected.

Ataxic

Ataxic cases are the least common and may cause tremors and usually affect motor skills and balance. Patients may have trouble processing things using visual or auditory skills. Cerebral Palsy patients may also have a mixed form of Cerebral Palsy, and may therefore suffer some of the symptoms of each form.

Athenoid

Athenoid, which is less common, means having mixed muscle tone.  Such patients may trouble keeping steady, controlling limbs, or holding onto objects.

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