Diagnostic Category:
Cerebral Palsy

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Caused by brain damage during pregnancy, birth, or early infancy

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Leads to muscle weakness, movement difficulties and impaired muscle tone

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Can affect all limbs, lower limbs, or one side of the body

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the result of damage to the immature brain, either during pregnancy or childbirth or in the first 2 years of an infant’s life. CP can lead to muscle weakness, lack of coordination of movements and impaired muscle tone. Sometimes movement disorders may be accompanied by sensory, cognitive and psychosocial deficits and/or the presence of seizures. CP may directly affect all four limbs (quadriplegia), only the lower limbs (biplegia) or one side of the body (hemiplegia), while the trunk is always affected to a lesser or greater extent, depending on various factors.

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