Sentences with phrase «with hypotonia»

A child with hypotonia often takes longer to reach motor developmental milestones, such as sitting up, crawling, walking, talking and feeding themselves, so it's important to use massage techniques that can help strengthen muscle tone.

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In the case of babies with Down Syndrome, for example, who commonly suffer from hypotonia — a decrease in muscle tone — baby massage can help tone floppy muscles.

The 20 newborns presented with a wide range of complex, medical issues, and half had neurologic symptoms such as seizures or hypotonia.

We have identified two families with a previously undescribed lethal X-linked disorder of infancy; the disorder comprises a distinct combination of an aged appearance, craniofacial anomalies, hypotonia, global developmental delays, cryptorchidism, and cardiac arrhythmias.

282/6: 15 MIPEP mutations cause autosomal recessive mitochondrial dysfunction with left ventricular non-compaction, hypotonia, and infantile death.

This report expands the phenotype of older patients with BRPS; common emerging features include severe intellectual disability (11/12), poor / absent speech (12/12), autistic traits (9/12), distinct face (arched eyebrows, prominent forehead, high - arched palate, hypertelorism and downslanting palpebral fissures), (9/12), hypotonia (11/12) and significant feeding difficulties (9/12) when young.

Loss of function mutations in CTNNB1 have been reported in individuals with intellectual disability [MIM # 615075] associated with peripheral spasticity, microcephaly and central hypotonia, suggesting a recognisable phenotype associated with haploinsufficiency for this gene.

The family spent 4 weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) where Nolan was diagnosed with a pneumothorax, dysphagia / dysplexia, hypotonia, respiratory distress, and failure to thrive.

To use a dog with IVDD as an example — physical impairments caused by compression of the spinal cord or nerve roots may include weakness in some or all limbs, proprioceptive deficits, changes in spinal reflexes and muscle tone (hyper / hypotonia), altered pain perception and / or sensation, and ataxia.

Children with dyskinetic cerebral palsy have slow, uncontrolled body movements and hypotonia, which can affect all areas of the body.