Mixed cerebral palsy is often more difficult to diagnose and can be mistaken for other neurological conditions such as ataxia. With mixed cerebral palsy, adjacent muscle groups can be alternately too tight and too undeveloped, causing spastic...
Cerebral palsy describes a group of movement disorders that appear during the first years of a patient's life and affect the ability to move and maintain posture and balance.
Cerebral palsy is a condition in which movement is impaired because the brain is unable to send proper signals to the muscles. In spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy, movement on one side of the body is affected.
Cerebral palsy is an umbrella term that describes several disorders that affect the ability of afflicted patients to coordinate the movements of their muscles. The Mayo Clinic explains that in the United States and Europe, one or two out of every...
Neurological disorders affect the brain, spinal cord and nerves of the central and peripheral nervous systems. While many neurological disorders are common, others occur so infrequently that they are recognized as rare disorders. These disorders...
Cerebral palsy, or CP, is the name for a group of neurological disorders that affect how the brain controls body movement and muscle coordination. Diagnosed early in life, cerebral palsy is a lifelong disorder with no cure, yet individuals can...
Cerebral palsy is a non-progressive neurological disorder that develops during the first few years of life. Individuals with cerebral palsy can suffer from symptoms including decreased muscle coordination, difficulty with speech, spasticity and...
A cerebrovascular accident, or stroke, can be a crippling and occasionally deadly event. Strokes are classified as either hemorrhagic or ischemic, depending on the cause; the effects depend on the area that is supplied by the compromised blood...
