How to judge whether a baby has cerebral palsy? You can observe from these postures

Cerebral palsy is a common disease in infants and young children. Generally speaking, after people discover that a baby has cerebral palsy, they can detect the disease from the baby's daily behavior.

Hemiplegic posture

In the case of hemiplegia, the child most often shows movement of one side of the limbs while the other side is disabled, and there is obvious asymmetry between the left and right limbs.

Opisthotonos

Children with this posture show increased muscle tone in the limbs and dorsiflexion of the head.

Ataxic gait

This type of manifestation takes the form of a drunkard's gait, which means that they are often unable to maintain a fixed posture. For example, if they are standing, they must constantly adjust their posture in order to maintain it.

Dance-like athetosis posture

Children with this posture show involuntary movements, and the movements are often in the form of dancing or twisting, without interruption. Moreover, the movement appears to be continuous and loose, with large amplitude and uncontrollable.

other

Other manifestations include the child's hands still being clenched into fists after 2 months, the child's upper limbs being in internal rotation, and the lower limbs being rigidly extended, crossed, and pointed toes. Some children do not show obvious abnormal posture when they are at rest. However, when the examiner suddenly holds the child's armpits and lets the soles of their feet rest on the bed, it can be found that the child's lower limbs are adducted and crossed, while both upper limbs are adducted and internally rotated. If a child over 6 months old cannot assume a normal sitting posture and also shows special abnormal sitting postures, such as leaning forward or leaning backward, these are all abnormal.