By Adriano Ferrari
This booklet is the results of experiences on cerebral palsy (CP) in teenagers that the authors and their collaborators (medical medical professionals and therapists) have conducted in recent times.
It addresses the most themes linked to the evaluate of adaptive features within the spastic sorts of CP (definition and ameliorations over the newest a long time, newly labeled orientations, etiopathogenesis, anatomic–functional correlations, semiotics, and the so-called linked issues: visible, cognitive, and behavioral). the most target of this e-book is to provide with ease obtainable info at the nature of the ailment, the issues correlated with analysis, and the rehabilitation.
Because of its instructive nature and useful procedure, the ebook should be a useful device for practitioners already operating during this box (medical medical professionals, baby neuropsychiatrists and physiatrists, and rehabilitation therapists), for college scholars learning actual and occupational treatment, and for citizens in rehabilitative medication, baby neurology, and orthopedics.
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Also for this technique, however, the transfer of the infant from the NICU is required; moreover, the equipment is extremely expensive and therefore not affordable for all centers. It has to be remarked that even the most advanced neuroimaging techniques show only structural changes of the brain, thus not providing information on the functional The Spastic Forms of Cerebral Palsy. Adriano Ferrari, Giovanni Cioni © Springer-Verlag Italia 2010 31 32 3 G. Cioni, A. Guzzetta, V. Belmonti status of the nervous system.
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A second, deeper change in form occurs at 6 to 9 weeks post-term age, when writhing movements gradually disappear and are replaced with fidgety movements (Hopkins and Prechtl, 1984; Prechtl et al. 1997a, b). Fidgety movements (FMs) are small movements of moderate speed and variable acceleration involving the neck, trunk, and limbs, occurring in all directions, and continual in the awake infant, except during fussing, crying, and focused attention (Prechtl et al. 1997a, b; Einspieler and Prechtl, 2004).
