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Article: Selective dorsal rhizotomy.(surgical procedure to help ameliorate symptoms of cerebral palsy)
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- The Exceptional Parent
- Article date:
- August 1, 1995
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The term "cerebral palsy" is used to describe many children and adults who have some sort of brain injury ("cerebral") resulting in problems with movement ("palsy"). Since there are different types of cerebral palsy, adjectives describing specific types (for example, "spastic" or "athetoid") usually precede the more general term, cerebral palsy, and describe the way an individual's nervous system and muscles function.
Doctors may also describe people with cerebral palsy in terms of the part of the body primarily affected--for example, diplegia (both legs), hemiplegia (one side of the body) or quadriplegia (arms, legs, face and trunk). They may also classify an ...