Child pathologies

Question 1

What do babies do 0-10 days?

Answer 1

Spine flexes

Inactivity of spinal muscles

Question 2

What do babies do 0-3 months?

Answer 2

Little or no antigravity activity
Limbs are flexed and adducted
Asymmetrical movements

Question 3

What do babies do 3-6 months?

Answer 3

More symmetry
More head control
Anti gravity stuff
Limbs extend and abduct
Free arms from trunk

Question 4

What do babies do 6-9 months?

Answer 4

Dissosciation of lower limbs from trunk
Sequences of movement
Reaching in different directions

Question 5

What do babies do 9-12 months?

Answer 5

Increasing independence, Refinement of movement, begin to stand up independently (Wide BOS, flat feet)

Question 6

What is hydrocephalus?

Answer 6

CSF gets produced and causes a blockage means the fluid spills out into the brain, puts pressure on the brain, particularly the eye and abducens nerve

Question 7

What is cerebral palsy?

Answer 7

Damage to the developing nervous system either before, during or in the early months of infancy. Hypoxia to the brain

Can be one side or both

Slows down developmental milestones

Question 8

Is CP flaccidity or spasticity?

Answer 8

Either

Question 9

What is Duchenne muscular dystrophy?

Answer 9

Boys inherit this, stand up weird, low power in extensor muscles