Patient's question:
My little nephew is just two months old. I always feel that this child is particularly unusual, and sometimes I feel that his reaction is especially slow. I also feel that his intelligence is not normal. I haven't taken him to the hospital for a check-up yet, but I'm very worried. I want to learn about the possible symptoms in advance.Doctor's answer:
One of the most typical symptoms of cerebral palsy is spasticity, which refers to a state of increased continuous tension after passive stretching of skeletal muscles due to the muscle's participation in hyperreflexia. Taking spastic cerebral palsy as an example: this motor impairment is significantly behind that of peers. The muscle tone of the skeletal muscles is markedly increased, and the two lower limbs can cross in a scissoring position. Walking is characterized by a scissoring gait, with the heels unable to flatten and the feet in a planovalgus position. One side of the limbs has reduced movement and is asymmetrical, leading to hemiplegia. During the examination, the limbs may have a "knife-like" sensation, such as spasticity, abnormal primitive reflexes, and spasticity. Intelligence is usually normal, but it can also be combined with intellectual disability, strabismus, epilepsy, limb contracture deformities, visual, auditory, and sensory impairments, as well as language disorders. Paralysis occurs when there is damage to the cerebral cortex and pyramidal tracts.