Cerebral Palsy In Legs Only

How old is too old.

Cerebral palsy in legs only. He is 24 yrs old and like I mentioned above its a minor cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that affect movement and muscle tone or posture. The parts of the body affected can also vary.

Spastic diplegia cerebral palsy is a form of cerebral palsy a neurological condition that usually appears in infancy or early childhood and permanently affects muscle control and coordinationAffected people have increased muscle tone which leads to spasticity stiff or tight muscles and exaggerated reflexes in the legs. Athetoid Cerebral Palsy includes cases with involuntary movement especially in the arms legs and hands. In some cases of cerebral palsy the cerebral motor cortex has not developed normally during fetal growth.

The arm muscles are generally less affected or. This type of cerebral palsy is caused by damage to the brains basal ganglia andor cerebellum. Athetoid cerebral palsy is characterized by a combination of hypotonia loosened muscles and hypertonia stiffened muscles which causes muscle tone to fluctuate.

How could we locate a surgeon for this. Monoplegic CP is a rare form of spastic CP that only affects one arm or one leg. Diplegia also known as spastic diplegia is a subset of spastic cerebral palsy marked by issues in the limbs specifically in the legs.

He is extremely intelligent and we are hoping to get his legs fixed and treated. Doing so would erase key components of my life our lives the lives of the 212000 children living with CP in the United States. In condition of Hypotonic Cerebral Palsy the muscle tone of the person gets affected and this may result to weak muscles and thin legs.

Cerebral Palsy is a neurological condition which primarily causes orthopedic impairment. Different from spastic cerebral palsy persons with choreoathetosis cerebral palsy have variable muscle tone often with decreased muscle tone hypotonia. The signs of cerebral palsy usually appear in the first few months of life but many children are not diagnosed until age 2 or later.