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INFANTILE CEREBRAL PALSY
Author(s) -
BurtonBradley Claudia
Publication year - 1949
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1949.tb70580.x
Subject(s) - citation , section (typography) , session (web analytics) , psychology , library science , computer science , world wide web , operating system
Definition. INFANTILE CEREBRAL PALSY, frequently loosely referred to as "spastic paralysis", is a term used to cover a group of closely allied crippling conditions in children in which there is defective muscular control. This may manifest itself in paresis; hypertonia of some muscles; defective balance; defective coordination, sometimes with associate hypotonia; the presence of repetitive involuntary movements or tremor of an intention or non-intention type. It is non-progressive.