How to judge high muscle tension

To determine whether the child has high muscle tone, you can observe some of the child's symptoms. For example, when you are holding the child, you can make a preliminary judgment by the feel of the child. If the child has a problem with muscle tone, the child will often have a sinking feeling. In addition, through the child's posture and through touching the child, you can make certain discoveries. If the child has high muscle tone, you must go to the hospital for a timely and thorough examination.

How to judge high muscle tension

1. You can check through the "holding" posture: by the feel of holding the baby, you can get a preliminary understanding of the child's muscle tone. Children with low muscle tone will find it difficult to be picked up and will feel like they are sinking. They are prone to slipping out of the tester's hands. Babies with spasms may feel stiffness and resistance when picked up. 2. Check the body posture: If a normal baby over 3 months old is placed in a supine position, he will lie down naturally and constantly move against gravity, maintaining a certain position and posture freely. For children with flaccid paralysis and low muscle tone, if placed in a supine position, their upper and lower limbs are often flexed and abducted, and they lack active movement. Children with spastic hypertonia, if placed in the supine position, often have abnormal asymmetric postures, few active movements, and stereotyped movements. The higher the muscle tone, the less active movement there is. The stronger the primitive reflex, the more severe the postural abnormality.

3. By "touching" the child's body: The tester can feel the tension of the muscle tissue by touching the muscles of the child's upper and lower limbs (biceps and triceps in the upper limbs, gastrocnemius and quadriceps in the lower limbs). If the child has low muscle tone, his hands will feel soft and loose, and he will offer less resistance to finger pressure. If the muscle tone is normal, it will feel soft, firm and elastic to the touch. If the muscle tone is high, the hands will feel tense and there will be a stronger resistance to finger pressure. 4. Examination of passive movement of the child: The tester performs passive flexion and extension exercises on the limbs. If the muscle tone is low, the child will feel heavy, without resistance, and will have no self-control over the limbs. If the muscle tone is high, the test subject will feel obvious resistance, and this resistance is often greater at the beginning of the exercise than at the end of the exercise. Limbs with normal muscle tone can both resist and coordinate when performing passive movements, and have the ability to control themselves within a certain range. The tester feels that the limbs do not feel as heavy as those with low muscle tone, nor do they feel as much resistance as those with high muscle tone.

How to recover from high muscle tension in newborn physical examination

First: While training, parents should use language to guide, because children with cerebral palsy have slow information feedback. A lot of time has proved that if parents use language to stimulate while training, the effect will be very obvious, and both language and intelligence can be improved. Combining rehabilitation, education and play. Childhood is an important stage for growth, development and early education, and the combination of the two helps to maximize the development of physical and mental potential. This is helpful for children with high muscle tone. Second: The purpose of belly crawling is to promote the separation of upper and lower limb movements and the sensation of body movement. The movement of the human body is completed on the basis of the coordination of various functions. Correct crawling on all fours also requires the ability to raise the head, straighten the neck, support the limbs, shift the center of gravity, etc. Therefore, during the training process, one cannot simply and rigidly practice a certain action. Attention should be paid to integration, such as posture changes, body axis rotation, kneeling upright and other training. To improve the comprehensive rehabilitation ability of children with high muscle tension. Third: The grasping and pinching movements of the hands are important fine functions of the hands, which are very important for the self-care ability of children with cerebral palsy in daily life. It is necessary to actively restore the fine functions of the hands through rehabilitation guidance training. Because the brain tissue of children with cerebral palsy is damaged during development, the hand function is often destroyed, the hands are in a primitive fist shape, and the movement of the hands is often restricted. Guided training of hand grasping and pinching movements for children with cerebral palsy can guide the normal activities of their hands and enable them to complete various fine movements like normal children. This can increase and decrease muscle tone. Relieve symptoms in children