Spastic cerebral palsy is the most common type, found in 70 to 80 percent of people with cerebral palsy. People with spastic cerebral palsy have increased muscle tone, which causes stiffened muscles.

Spastic cerebral palsy is further divided into types according to the areas of the body that it affects. For example: In Spastic hemiplegia one side of the body is affected.

Spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy (SQCP) is a type of severe cerebral palsy with varying symptoms, such as mild stiffness to severe pain and uncontrollable muscle spasms.

Natalie Dorsey, a 10-month-old from New Windsor, has spastic hemiplegia cerebral palsy and receives occupational therapy via telehealth from Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. Spastic ...

Researchers at Nemours and the University of Delaware have developed a blood test predictive of spastic cerebral palsy. Their study, published in BMC Bioinformatics, showed that DNA patterns in ...

North Texas 9-year-old girl with cerebral palsy defies the odds NORTH TEXAS — Just watching 9-year-old Amelia van der Merwe run and play you'd never know that at 22 months old she was diagnosed ...

The most common among them is spastic cerebral palsy that accounts for 85% of the total. Spasticity is characterized by velocity dependant increase in the tonic stretch reflexes.

Thomas Dreher, M.D., of Heidelberg University Clinics in Germany, and colleagues conducted a long-term evaluation of 53 ambulatory patients with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy and stiff-knee gait.

Kinematic characteristics of reaching movements of the dominant arm were assessed in 51 sitting preterm children who were aged 2–11 y and had cerebral palsy (CP), including 33 with spastic ...

In 2003, the CDC estimated that lifetime costs of caring for an individual with cerebral palsy are approximately $1 million, in addition to normal living costs. This amount equaled approximately $1.3 ...

A year ago, he adopted 19-year-old Nathan after fostering him since 2011.Nathan has spastic cerebral palsy and has been in and out of the hospital undergoing multiple surgeries for several months.