Dystonia cerebral palsy actually has these characteristics

According to the different symptoms of cerebral palsy, it can be clinically divided into five categories. Among them, hypotonia is more common in infancy and childhood, manifested as poor autonomous movement ability and developmental disorders. So what are the characteristics of dystonia-type cerebral palsy?

Characteristics of dystonia cerebral palsy: dyspnea

A more obvious feature of children with dystonia-type cerebral palsy is breathing difficulties. Due to the impaired respiratory function of children, people always feel that their breathing movements are shallow and weak, and their coughs are weak, which makes them prone to respiratory blockage. Therefore, the incidence of respiratory diseases in this type of patients is relatively high. Children with dystonia-type cerebral palsy are also prone to difficulties in sucking and swallowing movements, and are prone to eating disorders. Inability to maintain posture

Because children with dystonia cerebral palsy lack the ability to resist gravity and thus have incomplete ability for autonomous movement, they have almost no ability to maintain posture. The amplitude of changes in muscle tone of these children is relatively large. When there is no external stimulation, the children are in a completely paralyzed state. However, once they are subjected to sudden external stimulation or are affected by certain factors, the children's muscle tone will immediately increase rapidly, resulting in hypertonia. At this time, the back extensors are mainly involved, and the muscles are in an opisthotonos state. Indifferent response to the outside world

Children with dystonia-type cerebral palsy tend to react indifferently to the outside world. Due to incomplete muscle tone, incomplete ability to resist gravity and incomplete ability to maintain a certain posture, it is difficult for children to lift their heads and trunks and support their limbs, so these children often prefer to lie in the supine position. When lying in the supine position, his upper and lower limbs were in a state of abduction and external rotation, and his head was tilted to one side.