Patient's question:
A woman is 27 years old this year, and her mental state has not been very good recently. Then she found out that she was sick. Please ask: What are the early symptoms of cerebral palsy?Doctor's answer:
The symptoms of cerebral palsy manifest as delayed motor development, where affected children lag significantly behind their peers. It is often only when the child struggles to lift their eyes, leap, or sit that parents become aware of the issue. The limbs of the affected child show very little movement, particularly the lower limbs, often exhibiting conditions such as hemiplegia, bilateral plegia, or quadriplegia. The symptoms of cerebral palsy appear in infancy, typically presenting with abnormal postures and delayed growth and development. Although the brain damage or developmental abnormalities in the affected child are not progressive, with the repair of brain injuries and the course of growth and development, the clinical manifestations often change. For example, in severe neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, muscle tone may initially be overly tense in infancy, gradually shifting to muscle tone that is too high.