"Spastic paraplegia" refers to a medical condition where a person experiences stiffness and weakness in their leg muscles. This can cause difficulty with walking or moving around.
Full definition
Ataxia Congenital muscular dystrophy Congenital myasthenic syndrome Fronto - temporal lobe dementia Hereditary motor neuropathies — Charcot - Marie - Tooth disease
Hereditary spastic paraplegias Huntington's disease Muscular channelopathy Muscular dystrophy Spinal muscular atrophy — Lower motor neuron disease
Many constituents turned out with pre-existing conditions including one who suffers from
hereditary spastic paraplegia or «HSB», a progressive gait disorder that makes it difficult to walk.
Rahat, who is a single mum and has Hereditary
Spastic Paraplegia, uses a wheelchair and finds it difficult to attend conferences and training because of this.
In Roe, the ampoules of local anaesthetic were stored in phenol, which percolated minute cracks in the glass, and the contamination caused
the spastic paraplegia, when injected into the spine.