Sentences with word «hypertonia»

If your child is prone to have tight muscles (they may have been diagnosed with hypertonia - high tone, or a condition that includes high tone), W sitting is that much more stressful and detrimental to your child's joints.

Neurologically, the primary features seen most often and most evidently in infants were alterations in motor activity, reflected in body tone, posture and motility or movement; severe hypertonia (abnormal muscle tension and contraction); abnormal neurobehaviors, such as poor or delayed response to visual stimuli, and excitability.

It may be possible to elicit mild hypertonia and hyperreflexia in the limbs on one side.

Athetoid cerebral palsy is comprised of hypertonia and hypotonia, making it difficult for the individual to remain in the same position, walk or sit.

The most common form of cerebral palsy, spastic cerebral palsy accounts for about 70 to 80 percent of all cases.1 Affected children typically exhibit hypertonia and awkward movements in some or all areas of the body.

If a baby appears «stiff,» this may indicate hypertonia (increased muscle tone), which is the hallmark of spastic cerebral palsy.

Both low muscle tone (hypotonia) and high muscle tone (hypertonia) can make walking difficult.

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What is hypertonia?

(1) have blood tests done to rule other conditions that may co-exist with CD such as lupus, MS, myopathy and hypertonia.

The list of problems includes respiratory distress, cyanosis, apnea, seizures, temperature instability, feeding difficulty, vomiting, hypoglycemia, hypotonia, hypertonia, hyperreflexia, tremor, jitteriness, irritability, and constant crying.