This particular recommendation report will analyze cerebral palsy based on the side effects, cost, and the effectiveness of the treatments. .
Technical Background.
Categories pertaining to Cerebral Palsy: .
1. Spastic.
2. Athetoid.
3. Ataxic .
4. Hypotonic .
Spastic Cerebral Palsy (most familiar form of CP) refers .
to tense, contracted muscles, and affects a large amount of people with that condition. People affected with it contain a large amount of muscle tone "muscles are tight. Consequently, individuals with rigid/inept motion have difficulty changing positions; therefore, while grasping firmly with their hands it is harder to release the items they are holding. .
Based on Mosby's Medical Dictionary, Spastic Cerebral Palsy is broken up into 5 categories: .
1. diplegia which affects only one side of the body, .
2. hemiplegia which affects the arms or the legs, and.
3. quadriplegia which affects all the limbs .
4. monoplegia which affects one single limb.
5. triplegia which affects three limbs (Anderson, Kenneth, et al 8).
This type of CP resulted due to the damage located within the motor cortex which controls voluntary movements. When damage is caused to the motor cortex it becomes difficult "since the brain cannot correspond to the function of the muscles within both sides of the body. Gersh affirms that injury to the cerebral cortex on the body's left side makes it impossible to manage movements on the body's right side, and injury to the cerebral cortex on the right side makes it impossible to manage movements on the body's left side (3:8). .
Athetoid Cerebral Palsy has the characteristic of lacking control of movement in the face, arms and trunk. According to Mosby's Medical Dictionary, athetoid cerebral palsy can prevent a person from speaking, eating, touching, or making it impossible to grab an item, and other skills that involve synchronized motions (3:8). Individuals with this type of cerebral palsy have varied muscle tone "either the tone is too high or very low.
