CP from Textbook Flashcards
AACPDM hip guidance GMFCS II, x-ray
Age 2, 6, and 10
Degree of scoli for CP fusion
40 skeletal immature
50 skeletal mature
Are arms or legs closer to ventricles (medial)
legs, hence PVL causing diplegia
3 criteria of CP
- Neuromotor control problem
- Static brain lesion
- injury before birth or first year
Movement pattern on 25% of CP
dyskinetic, ataxic, hypotonic
If you haven’t walked by this age, you prob won’t walk
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AACPDM Hip guidance GMFCS IV and V, x-ray
Age 2 to 12 twice a year, then yearly to 16
Definition of CP
Group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitations that are attributed to no progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain
Epidemiology of CP
Increasing due to more premies surviving, more term with CP, and longer survival. There are more kids with severe CP now.
Extra risks for low Bone Mineral density
- increasing severity of neurological findings
- Increased feeding difficulty
- anticonvulstants
- low weight
Risk factors for CP
- placental abruption
- birth asphyxia
- neonatal medical problems
- prematurity
- Infection
- Inflammation
- coagulopathy
What is the greatest risk factor for CP
prematurity
What are TORCH infections
TO– Toxoplasmosis
R–Rubella
C–Cytomegalovirus
H–Herpes
Movement type of 75% of CP
Spastic (and a touch of dystonic)
Cause found for most CP
No
What is tonic labyrinthine tonic neck reflex
Basically “crunches”. lay back and body will extend. Flex neck, legs will flex
other MRI CP findings
Neuronal migration disorders:
- Lissencephaly
- polymicrogyria
- schizencephaly
- holoprosencephaly
What is an indicator of hemiplegic CP
Hand preference before 18 months