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Cerebral Palsy

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Goals for adulthood?
*INDEPENDENT MOBILITY AND ADL'S
*HEALTHY LIFESTYLES
*COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
*INDEPENDENT LIVING
*VOCATION
Goals for school age/adolescense?
*CONTINUE INDEPENDENT MOBILITY
*DEVELOP INDEPENDENT ADL'S
*FOSTER FITNESS AND SELF IMAGE
*FOSTER COMMUNITY INTEGRATION
*FOSTER SOCIAL INTERACTION WITH PEERS
*DEVELOP VOCATIONAL PLANhoo
This technque is utilized when there is poor trunk control?
"W" SITTING
Nystagmus?
QUCK MOTION OF EYES (UP/DOWN, SIDE/SIDE, ROTARY)
Strabismus?
CROSSING OF EYES (WEAKNESS IN THE LATERAL MUSCLES)
Seizure does not fit into any other category?
UNCLASSIFIED SEIZURE (FEBRILE SEIZURE)
Complex partial seizure?
MAY DEVELOP FRO SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE, LOC OCCURS FROM BEGINNING OR END OF EVENT.
Simple partial seizure?
NO LOC,CLONIC MOTIONS START IN ONE PART OF BODY AND SPREAD TO OTHER PARTS; USUALLY ON ONE SIDE.
Do not involve entire body; may include variety of sensory/motor symptoms?
PARTIAL SEIZURE (FOCAL SEIZURE)
Akinetic seizure?
FREEZING IN PLACE
Blinking, staring, nonconvulsive?
ABSENSE SEIZURE
Sudden loss of muscle tone?
AKA (DROP ATTACK)
ATONIC SEIZURE
Myoclinic jerks?
CLONIC SEIZURE
Sudden stiffening of body?
TONIC
Tonic clonic seizue?
STIFFENING, THEN JERKING OF BODY
What is used to determine brain abnormalities?
*MRI
*CRANIAL ULTRASOUND
This type of CP affects head and trunk control along with breathing patterns?
HYPOTONIC CP
Disorder of balance and control of time of movements; weakness, widebased gait?

*Cerebellar damage
ATAXIC CP
Choreathetosis?
JERKY MOVEMENTS, USUALLY OF DIGITS, VARIED ROM
Ballismus?
RANDOM MOTION IN LOARGE, FAST PATTERNS OF A SINGLE LIMB, MOST RARE
Dystonia?
SLOW MOVEMENT WITH TORSIONAL ELEMENT

(SIMILAR TO ATHETOSIS)
Tremor?
RARE IN ISOLATION; OFTEN OCCURS WITH ATHETOSIS OR ATAXIA
Rigidigy?
UNCOMMON; INDICATES SEVERE DAMAGE TO DEEP BRAIN STRUCTURES
Athetoss?
*SLOW, WRITHING INVOLUNTARY MOTIONS
*AFFECTS EXTREMITIES IN MID-RANGE; MOTOR CONTROL DECREASES AS EXTREMITY MOVES AWAY FROM BODY
*DECREASED STATIC AND DYNAMIC POSTURAL STABILITY
*CAN AFFECT SPEECH AND FEEDING
Dyskinesia and movement disorders?
*ATHETOSIS
*RIGIDITY
*TREMOR
*DYSTONIA
*BALLISMUS
*CHOREOATHETOSIS
Momoplegia and triplegia?
ONE ARM OR ONE LEG (UNCOMMON)
Tetraplegic CP?
ALL 4 LIMBS AFFECTED; DIFFICULTY WITH HEAD/TRUNK CONTROL
Hemiplegic CP?
ONE SIDE AFFECTED
If a pt has diplegic CP, what is affected most?
BILTERAL LE INVOLVEMENT>BILATERAL UE INVOLVEMET
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