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CEREBRAL PALSY
Author(s) -
Cunningham W. D.
Publication year - 1957
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.1326-5377.1957.tb59923.x
Subject(s) - george (robot) , citation , obstetrics and gynaecology , psychology , medicine , library science , art , computer science , art history , pregnancy , biology , genetics
modifications for the spastic,athetoid, ataxic, tremor and rigidity types. A muscle chart is of great value in the spastictype. The usual modalitiesare used, dependingon the stage at which the child is, and on his individual needs. There tends to be a balancedefect in most cases even when there is no ataxia. The factors of general muscle weakness,spasticity, involuntary motion et cetera contribute to this. The child's normal progression of , sitting balance,crawling, pulling himself up, standingand walking is usually delayed, and the picture is one of retardeddevelopment. The stagesof sitting balance,standing balanceand walking reciprocationmust be achievedin progressionbefore walking.