The Spastic Forms of Cerebral Palsy: A Guide to the by Adriano Ferrari

By Adriano Ferrari

This ebook is the results of experiences on cerebral palsy (CP) in young children that the authors and their collaborators (medical medical professionals and therapists) have performed lately.
It addresses the most issues linked to the assessment of adaptive capabilities within the spastic different types of CP (definition and changes over the newest a long time, newly categorized orientations, etiopathogenesis, anatomic–functional correlations, semiotics, and the so-called linked issues: visible, cognitive, and behavioral). the most aim of this ebook is to supply easily obtainable info at the nature of the illness, the issues correlated with diagnosis, and the rehabilitation.
Because of its instructive nature and useful procedure, the booklet may be a useful software for practitioners already operating during this box (medical medical professionals, baby neuropsychiatrists and physiatrists, and rehabilitation therapists), for collage scholars learning actual and occupational treatment, and for citizens in rehabilitative drugs, baby neurology, and orthopedics.

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Neonatal Neurological Examination: a Novel Approach A novel approach to neonatal neurological evaluation, based on the observation of fetal, neonatal, and infant spontaneous motor activity, was recently proposed by Prechtl (1990, 2001). The reasons for this choice derive from theoretical as well as practical considerations. , movements produced by central pattern generators located in different areas of the CNS and not necessarily triggered by an external input; second, there is strong evidence that spontaneous motor activity is an indicator of alterations occurring in the nervous systems, one that is more sensitive than the responses to sensory stimulations and reflexes.

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The differences in responses at the same age between this population and that of infants born pre-term were described in another study (Mercuri et al. 2003). Moreover, significant correlations have been demonstrated between abnormal findings at the test, especially in the posture and tone section, and specific MRI alterations due to hypoxicischemic encephalopathy (Mercuri et al. 1999). On the basis of the neonatal examination, the same authors also developed a protocol for use after the neonatal period in infants up to 24 months of age: the Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination (Dubowitz et al.

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