spastic diplegia

The most serious side effect of interferon is a spastic diplegia.

No two people with spastic diplegia are exactly alike.

Thus, for many years, spastic diplegia was known as Little's Disease; only later did the name change.

The intelligence of a person with spastic diplegia is unaffected by the condition.

Spastic diplegia's social implications tend to vary with the intensity of the condition in the individual.

Most people with spastic diplegia are fully ambulatory and have a scissors gait.

Spastic diplegia is the lower extremities affected, with little to no upper-body spasticity.

It is the 'one-sided version' of spastic diplegia.

Many patients exhibit spastic diplegia, a condition characterized by increased muscle tone and spasticity in the lower body.

In the later onset form, patients typically have normal intellectual function, but present with spastic diplegia and optic atrophy.

Major clinical treatments for spastic diplegia are:

Spastic For details on the most common form of cerebral palsy, see spastic diplegia.

SDR is especially useful when cerebral palsy affects both legs but not the arms (spastic diplegia).

HSP is not a form of cerebral palsy even though it physically may appear and behave much the same as, for example, spastic diplegia.

They are often preferred in spasticity patients such as those with spastic diplegia, as very little of the oral dose actually reaches the spinal fluid.

Doctor William John Little's first recorded encounter with cerebral palsy is reported to have been among children who displayed signs of spastic diplegia.

In the industrialized world, the incidence of overall cerebral palsy, which includes but is not limited to spastic diplegia, is about 2 per 1000 live births.

As a result, McCaughey had seven premature babies, one with hypotonic quadriplegia and one with spastic diplegia.

The gait of PVL patients with spastic diplegia exhibits an unusual pattern of flexing during walking.

However, the degree of variability among individuals with spastic diplegia means that no greater or lesser degree of stigma or real-world limitation is standard.

A lesion of the thoracic spinal cord (T1-12) will produce upper motor neuron signs in the lower limbs, presenting as a spastic diplegia.

Paratonia was classified very recently by experts, and is unrelated to the much more typical spasticity associated with spastic diplegia and similar forms of cerebral palsy.

A major qualifier in the cases taken on at SLCH, however, is that all of its adults have had only mild cases of spastic diplegia.

Individuals with spastic diplegia are very tight and stiff and must work very hard to successfully resist and "push through" the extra tightness they perpetually experience.

The degree of spasticity in spastic diplegia (and, for that matter, other types of spastic CP) varies widely from person to person.