Question
What are the main symptoms of pediatric cerebral palsy?
Answer
Clinically, it is characterized by abnormal posture and muscle tone, muscle weakness, involuntary movements, and ataxia, often accompanied by sensory, cognitive, communication, and behavioral impairments, as well as secondary skeletal muscle abnormalities. Epileptic seizures can also occur. Non-progressive central nervous system motor disorders caused by various reasons within the first month of life are most common, including hereditary factors such as chromosomal diseases and congenital infections, brain development malformations or hypoplasia, fetal brain ischemia-hypoxia leading to periventricular white matter softening or basal ganglia damage.