What are the specific characteristics of spastic cerebral palsy? How to treat it?

Spastic cerebral palsy is a relatively common type of cerebral palsy, but people are unable to distinguish the manifestations of spastic cerebral palsy. So, what are the specific characteristics of spastic cerebral palsy? How to treat it?

1. Clinical manifestations of spastic cerebral palsy

The ankylosing type refers to a group of patients with stiff limbs in the spastic type, which is an extrapyramidal system injury. Spastic cerebral palsy is relatively rare in clinical practice and is also known as rigid cerebral palsy or spastic cerebral palsy. The biggest feature of spastic cerebral palsy is resistance to passive movement, a special hyperactive form of stretch reflex, persistent increased muscle tone, and damage to the limbs, which makes it difficult to strictly distinguish it from the spastic type. Do passive exercises and move the limbs. There is resistance whether it is flexion or extension, giving people the feeling of bending a lead pipe or moving a gear. The resistance is greatest during slow movements. Tendon reflexes range from normal to diminished. It is often accompanied by intellectual, emotional, language disorders, as well as epilepsy, sensory movement, strabismus and other symptoms.

2. How to treat spastic cerebral palsy?

When it comes to how to treat spastic cerebral palsy, experts from Wuhan Zhongyuan Brain Hospital said that spastic cerebral palsy can be treated. At present, comprehensive treatment has the best effect, which needs to include medical rehabilitation, educational rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation, and social rehabilitation. The specific contents include multidisciplinary comprehensive treatment methods such as drug therapy, nerve repair, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation treatment. If the patient is suspected to have spastic cerebral palsy, the first thing to do in this case is to make a clear diagnosis and evaluation, develop an individualized treatment plan, and then conduct functional training to learn the correct use of muscle strength and walking posture; consider surgery at an appropriate age to solve problems such as spasticity, stiffness, and deformity; at the same time, perform orthopedic surgery on patients with deformities, and the effect is generally ideal.

The expert added that many children are in a state of long-term treatment failure because they have missed the best time for treatment, or they have not found the right hospital or chosen the right method. The harm that spastic cerebral palsy brings to children is self-evident. Clinically, it has been found that it can cause motor dysfunction, posture disorders, intellectual disabilities, language disorders, visual and auditory disorders, etc., causing serious physical and mental harm to children. Therefore, if you find that your child has spastic cerebral palsy, take him to a regular professional hospital for treatment as soon as possible.