Question
What are the symptoms of infantile cerebral palsy?
Answer
- Central motor impairment manifests as delayed motor development, significantly lagging behind same age children. Parents may notice the condition when their child struggles with lifting their eyes, jumping, or sitting. The child’s limbs are often minimally active, especially the lower limbs, often presenting with hemiplegia, bilateral paresis, or quadriplegia. Due to difficulties in voluntary movement, actions may be rigid and uncoordinated, often resulting in abnormal movement patterns.
- Abnormal muscle tone and posture can occur when specific brain areas (such as the extrapyramidal system or basal ganglia) are inflamed, leading to symptoms like abnormal movements, increased activity, athetosis, chorea, and muscle rigidity; when the cerebellum is inflamed, ataxia and twisted muscle tone may occur; and when there is widespread inflammation in the brain, muscle rigidity and tremors may appear.