• Diplegia, when used singularly, refers to paralysis affecting symmetrical parts of the body. This is different from hemiplegia which refers to spasticity...
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  • Spastic diplegia is a form of cerebral palsy (CP) that is a chronic neuromuscular condition of hypertonia and spasticity — manifested as an especially...
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  • Brachial amyotrophic diplegia, also called Vulpian-Bernhardt Syndrome (VBS), flail arm syndrome, or man-in-barrel syndrome, is a rare motor neuron disease...
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    Möbius syndrome or Moebius syndrome is a rare congenital neurological disorder which is characterized by facial paralysis and the inability to move the...
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    the body that are most affected. Such classifications include spastic diplegia, spastic hemiplegia, spastic quadriplegia, and in cases of single limb...
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    Lateral Sclerosis Regional Variants (Brachial Amyotrophic Diplegia, Leg Amyotrophic Diplegia, and Isolated Bulbar Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)". Neurologic...
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    Severe intellectual disability-progressive spastic diplegia syndrome is a rare novel genetic disorder characterized by severe intellectual disabilities...
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  • relieve negative symptoms of neuromuscular conditions such as spastic diplegia and other forms of spastic cerebral palsy. The specific sensory nerves...
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  • affecting the upper motor neurons in the form of a lesion, such as spastic diplegia, or upper motor neuron syndrome, and can also be present in various types...
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    spastic diplegia, a condition characterized by increased muscle tone and spasticity in the lower body. The gait of PVL patients with spastic diplegia exhibits...
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  • disorders, including spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy (for example, spastic diplegia), stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and multiple sclerosis (MS)...
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  • even though it physically may appear and behave much the same as spastic diplegia. The origin of HSP is different from cerebral palsy. Despite this, some...
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    injection, has shown efficacy against hemangiomas, but may result in spastic diplegia in up to 20% of treated children. These agents are rarely used now in the...
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    argued that the word "spaz" represented a derogatory term for spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy. In response, in August 2022, a representative...
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  • neuropathy Congenital distal spinal muscular atrophy Congenital facial diplegia Color blindness Cornelia de Lange syndrome Corticobasal degeneration Cotard...
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  • defines this classification as being for "Minimal hemiplegia, ataxia, diplegia or athetosis. May have minimal co-ordination problems, good balance. Runs...
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    surgeon who is credited with the first medical identification of spastic diplegia, when he observed it in the 1860s amongst children. While spasticity surely...
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    and cerebral diplegia: methods used for the restoration of function. Sydney: Angus and Robertson "Infantile Paralysis and cerebral diplegia", British Journal...
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  • assisting movements of the upper limbs when walking. Arthrogryposis Spastic diplegia Pernicious anemia Cerebrovascular accident Cervical spondylosis with myelopathy...
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    Foix–Chavany–Marie syndrome Other names Facio-pharyngo-glosso-masticatory diplegia Operculum (brain) Specialty Neurology...
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    study began in the 19th century by William John Little, after whom spastic diplegia was called "Little's disease". William Osler first named it "cerebral palsy"...
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  • was described, different interpretations of commonly used terms (e.g. diplegia, hemiplegia and quadriplegia) meant that data recorded in studies were...
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    2001). "Classification of gait patterns in spastic hemiplegia and spastic diplegia: a basis for a management algorithm". European Journal of Neurology. 8...
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  • genetic disorder characterized by congenital cataract, hypotonia, spastic diplegia, intellectual or developmental disability, microcephaly, microcornea, optic...
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  • (such as one arm and two legs, or one leg and two arms, etc.); spastic diplegia affects two limbs (commonly just the legs), spastic hemiplegia affects...
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  • healthy coronary artery Spastic ataxia Charlevoix–Saguenay type Spastic diplegia infantile type Spastic dysphonia Spastic p Spastic paraparesis deafness...
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    epilepsy, craniosynostosis (premature closing of the skull bones), spastic diplegia, cerebral hypotrophy, underdevelopment or agenesis of the corpus callosum...
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    control is very important), or moderate cerebral palsy, hemiplegia or diplegia with good playing arm. Class 9: Mild impairments of the leg(s), or mild...
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    have developed paralysis of the legs in the form of spastic hemiplegia or diplegia as a result of the traumatic brain injury, various gait patterns can be...
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    GABA analogue GABA receptor GABA tea Giant depolarizing potential Spastic diplegia, a GABA deficiency neuromuscular neuropathology Spasticity Succinic semialdehyde...
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