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Topic: Diplegia

	Spastic Diplegia
		Spastic diplegia is a form of cerebral palsy where both the arms and legs have abnormal stiffness.
		A spastic diplegia victim's arm, face and neck muscles are usually affected to a lesser degree than the legs.
		Outside of the physical characteristics of spastic diplegia, the disorder is often accompanied by mental retardation.
	www.cerebral-palsy-information.com /cerebral_palsy_information/types_cerebral_palsy/spastic_diplegia.htm (592 words)

	Forms of Cerebral Palsy: Diplegia
		Diplegia is a type of CP primarily affecting the legs.
		A child with mild diplegia can walk without the use of aids, has a normal tolerance for walking and can keep up with non-disabled children of a similar age in activities where walking is involved.
		A child with moderate diplegia is able to walk for most daily activities although she may choose to use an aid at times such as crutches or a walker.
	www.originsofcerebralpalsy.com /02-forms/05-diplegia.html (335 words)

	Forms of Cerebral Palsy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Diplegia is a form of CP primarily affecting the legs.
		At age 2, close and regular examination of the hips of children with diplegia is needed for possible spastic hip disease.
		For the child with mild diplegia, replacing therapy with other physical activities, such as swimming, dance class, karate, or horseback riding, is a good idea because the child’s interest will keep her active in developing her motor skills.
	www.formsofcerebralpalsy.com /diplegia.html (972 words)

	on spastic diplegia being a "form of CP"
		Susan: Actually, there's a good answer to your question, which is that it stands to reason that if the root of spastic diplegia is the central nervous system, it of course involves the brain, since nerve firings and synapases and all that good stuff must go through the brain to be received.
		But as far as actual damage to the brain organ itself-- no. Spastic diplegia is not actual damage to the brain; it's damage to the nerves that lead to the brain.
		Frankly, I don't believe that spastic diplegia-- or any other type of condition rooted purely in spasticity and caused by neurological damage-- should really be called "a form of cerebral palsy" in the first place.
	www.talkaboutsupport.com /group/alt.support.cerebral-palsy/messages/12277.html (293 words)

	Retrolental Fibroplasia: A Modern Parable - Chapter 8
		However, there was a correlation between spastic diplegia and a history of postnatal breathing difficulties associated with cyanotic spells and respiratory distress (as indicated by retractions of the chest wall and grunting respiration).
		There was also a relationship between the neurologic outcome and the duration of oxygen therapy with an opposing trend as to the status of the eyes, i.e., spastic diplegia frequency fell and RLF rose as the duration of oxygen treatment increased (Fig.
		There was no association between spastic diplegia and duration of oxygen administration in children born after longer periods of gestation.
	www.neonatology.org /classics/parable/ch08.html (1284 words)

	AANS.org \| Education and Meetings \| AANS Scientific Journals \| Neurosurgical Focus
		This investigation is a post hoc comparison of the functional effects from each of these surgical options in 30 patients with spastic diplegia who underwent one of these interventions as their initial surgical procedure.
		The purpose of this study is to develop hypotheses regarding the relative functional effects of orthopedic surgery and SDR in ambulatory patients with spastic diplegia.
		Group 2 consisted of 14 of 30 patients with spastic diplegia who participated in a prospective analysis of MT surgery at the Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center of the University of Virginia (Table 2).[2] All patients were scheduled for MT surgery for the correction of dynamic and/or static contractures.
	www.aans.org /education/journal/neurosurgical/jan98/4-1-2.asp (3555 words)

	MedFriendly.com: Diplegia
		Examples of diplegia would be when both hands are paralyzed or two similar parts of the face on both sides of the body are paralyzed.
		Diplegia comes from the Greek word, "di" meaning "two," and the word "plege," meaning "stroke." Put the two words together and you have "two stroke," referring to the two sides of the body affected by the paralysis.
		A stroke is a burst artery (a type of blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart) or a blockage of an artery in the brain.
	www.medfriendly.com /diplegia.html (238 words)

	Figures
		The knee is excessively flexed at initial contact (Point A, when the foot first contacts the ground at beginning of the gait cycle) and remains excessively flexed while in contact with the ground (Point B, throughout stance phase of the gait cycle).
		Knee kinematics and associated hamstrings EMG tracing for an adolescent with cerebral palsy spastic diplegia (shown in Video 3) indicating that the hamstrings are active throughout stance phase (Point A).
		The absence of excessive ankle dorsiflexion in stance (Point A) indicates that plantar flexor weakness is not contributing to his crouch gait pattern (excessive knee flexion in stance).
	www.medscape.com /content/1998/00/44/01/440148/440148_fig.html (1082 words)

	Reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		So diplegia - forget that di means two - may well have four limbs involved.
		The range of severities in diplegia correlates with the concentric layering on of motor pathways as you travel up the spinal cord and to the brain past the ventricles.
		Diplegia is speckles of injury adjacent the ventricles.
	pediatric-orthopedics.com /Topics/CP/Definitions/Reality/reality.html (4145 words)

	Spastic diplegia infantile type - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	Clinical Trial: Eye-Hand Coordination in Children with Spastic Diplegia
		Healthy normal volunteers and children with spastic diplegia between 6 and 12 years of age may be eligible for this study.
		A second set of studies examines motor skills in spastic diplegia children at different ages with the goal of defining the affect of callosal development on the motor syndromes of cerebral palsy.
		Patients with sapstic diplegia who were born at term will be excluded from the study as these form a separate diagnostic cohort.
	www.clinicaltrials.gov /show/NCT00024791 (1201 words)

	Diplegia, Spastic Clinical Trials Listings and Information at ClinicalTrialsSearch.org
		Diplegia, Spastic Clinical Trials Facts presented on Clinical Trials Search isn't meant to be a substitute for proven medical advice, calls or treatment with a real physician.
		Diplegia, Spastic Clinical research trials and Diplegia, Spastic healthcare trials occur in many of places throughout the United States.
		Diplegia, Spastic Clinical Trials and other clinical trials permit volunteers to get medical treatment choices before they are available to the masses.
	www.clinicaltrialssearch.org /diplegia_spastic_clinical_trials.html (270 words)

	Spastic Diplegia from Interferon Alpha-2a - Journal Watch Dermatology
		Spastic diplegia was reported previously in a two-year-old child with laryngeal papillomatosis who received a seven-month course of interferon alpha-n3 at two to three million units per day.
		For infants who are candidates for IFN therapy, the risk of spastic diplegia must be weighed carefully against the potential benefits of this therapy.
		Spastic diplegia as a complication of interferon Alfa-2a treatment of hemangiomas of infancy.
	dermatology.jwatch.org /cgi/content/full/1998/501/1 (334 words)

	Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: Sagittal gait patterns in spastic diplegia
		Classifications of gait patterns in spastic diplegia have been either qualitative, based on clinical recognition, or quantitative, based on cluster analysis of kinematic data.
		They observed associations between contractures of the psoas and lumbar lordosis, of the adductors and scissoring, of the hamstrings and knee flexion, of rectus femoris and stiff knee gait and of gastrocsoleus and tip-toe gait.
		For the cross-sectional study the inclusion criteria were the diagnosis of spastic diplegia, in patients aged between four and 18 years, the ability to walk independently, with or without mobility aids and a three-dimensional gait analysis conducted before any surgical intervention except for calf surgery.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3767/is_200403/ai_n9388912 (1197 words)

	Paediatrics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A previous study concluded that preterm birth and white matter damage were caused by maternal infection during pregnancy and that this may have resulted in spastic diplegia.
		It was also found that microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity was detected in 20% women who gave birth after preterm onset of labour and in 50% who had prelabour rupture of membranes.
		The authors conclude that the risk of diplegia among VLBW babies is increased in children born after preterm onset of labour and prelabour rupture of membranes.
	www.mdbrowse.com /Speciality/Neurology/Paediatrics.htm (548 words)

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	Spastic Diplegia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		1) " Spastic" -- In re: Spastic Diplegia
		2) " Diplegia" -- In re: Spastic Diplegia
		Some of the people with diplegia will be able to walk alone or with orthosis.
	www.witchware.com /File/5245-Spastic.Diplegia.Html (170 words)

	Cerebral Palsy - A Complete Guide for Caregiving Book Review
		Spastic muscles and delayed growth of these muscles cause leg muscles to be short and as a result the joints become stiff and the range of motion decreases as the child grows.
		Many children with diplegia were born prematurely and have had respiratory problems.
		For the majority of children with diplegia, growth and development are not a problem.
	www.comeunity.com /disability/cerebral_palsy/caregiving.html (408 words)

	The term diplegia should be abandoned -- Colver and Sethumadhavan 88 (4): 286 -- Archives of Disease in Childhood
		The term diplegia should be abandoned -- Colver and Sethumadhavan 88 (4): 286 -- Archives of Disease in Childhood
		of the term diplegia is embedded unknowingly in the studies.
		The early manifestations and course of diplegia in childhood.
	adc.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/88/4/286 (2172 words)

	spastic diplegia- fundamentaly neuromuscular
		She developed cerebral palsy from blood not all being reabsorbed into her brain when she was still in the hospital.
		She has spastic diplegia and uses a power wheelchair as her primary means of mobility.
		To me, approaching spastic diplegia, or really any type of spastic cerebral palsy, on the neurological level is at least (if not more) important than stretching and exercise.
	www.talkaboutsupport.com /group/alt.support.cerebral-palsy/messages/12270.html (321 words)

	Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: Femoral derotation osteotomy in spastic diplegia: Proximal or distal? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Femoral derotation osteotomy in spastic diplegia: Proximal or distal?
		Although gait in children with spastic diplegia may be variable, the most common pattern includes problems in the sagittal, coronal and transverse planes.
		Children with spastic diplegia, scheduled for the correction of in-toed gait by FDO as part of simultaneous multilevel surgery between 1997 and 1999, were recruited for this prospective consecutive study which was approved by our Institutional Review Board.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3767/is_200303/ai_n9169883 (1031 words)

	RedNova News - Health - Ataxia, Autism, and the Cerebellum: a Clinical Study of 32 Individuals With Congenital Ataxia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In epidemiological analyses ataxic diplegia is often categorized as a form of spastic diplegia.
		Only 1 of the 32 children (patient 14; a female with severe ataxic diplegia after neonatal cerebral haemorrhage) was classified as level IV according to GMFCS, all others were classified as level I to II and had mild to moderate gross motor impairments.
		This is in accord with earlier findings that ataxic diplegia has more in common with spastic diplegia than with simple ataxia, and that simple ataxia combined with learning disability often has a prenatal background (Hagberg and Hagberg 1993).
	www.rednova.com /news/display?id=136876&source=r_health (4059 words)

	Cerebral Palsy Lawyer: Cerebral Palsy Types
		When describing a type of Cerebral Palsy, the movement classification and limbs affected are combined to tell which movement disorder is occurring along with what part of the body the movement disorder affects.
		If a child has Spastic Diplegia Cerebral Palsy for example, this type of Cerebral Palsy is characterized by muscles that are stiff and tight with an increased resistance to being stretched that affect all four limbs, however, the legs are more affected than the arms.
		Since the brain injury causing the leg problems, affects the lower part of the body, hand–eye coordination is weakened and thus difficult.
	www.jrlawfirm.com /types_of_cerebral_palsy.htm (1193 words)

	Medical Dictionary: Congenital Facial Diplegia - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Congenital Facial Diplegia: Another name for Mobius syndrome (or close medical condition association).
		Congenital Facial Diplegia: Congenital Facial Diplegia is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database: Congenital conditions, Genetic Disease Congenital Facial Diplegia (medical condition): Type of facial paralysis.
		Congenital Facial Diplegia: Mobius syndrome, a rare genetic disorder characterized by facial paralysis, is caused by the absence or underdevelopment of the 6th and 7th cranial nerves.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /medical/congenital_facial_diplegia.htm (189 words)

	Cerebral Palsy
		Their condition, which was called Little's disease for many years, is known as spastic diplegia.
		It is just one of several disorders that affect control of movement and are grouped together under the term cerebral palsy.
		Spastic diplegia is only one of several disorders called cerebral palsy.
	healthlink.mcw.edu /article/931225858.html (1937 words)

	Geometry.Net - Health_Conditions: Congenital Facial Diplegia
		Extractions: Mobius syndrome is a rare birth defect caused by the absence or underdevelopment of the 6th and 7th cranial nerves, which control eye movements and facial expression.
		Although von Graefe described a case of congenital facial diplegia in 1880, the syndrome was reviewed and defined further by Möbius in 1888 and 1892.
		(1977) observed congenital facial diplegia and flexionfinger contractures in 7 members of 3 generations of a family.
	www4.geometry.net /health_conditions/congenital_facial_diplegia.html (1756 words)

	Forms of Cerebral Palsy: Tiplegia.
		The most common pattern is for both legs and one arm to be affected.
		This is sometimes thought of as hemiplegia overlapping with diplegia and because the primary motor difficulty is with the legs.
		The guidelines and recommendations pertaining to diplegia may offer the most useful information.
	www.originsofcerebralpalsy.com /02-forms/10-tiplegia.html (112 words)

	Spinal Cord - Abstract of article: Brachial diplegia as a result of cervical cord injury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		To report a case of brachial diplegia with normal lower limb power, after a cervical cord injury.
		Initial neurological examination revealed brachial diplegia, with posterior column sensory involvement of the lower limbs which had normal power.
		Pure brachial diplegia represents a rare clinical presentation of cervical cord pathology, including trauma, of which clinicians should be aware.
	dx.doi.org /10.1038/sj.sc.3101716 (218 words)

	Spastic Cerebral Palsy : Spastic Quadriplegia : Diplegia : Hemiplegia
		Spastic Cerebral Palsy : Spastic Quadriplegia : Diplegia : Hemiplegia
		If both legs are affected it is called spastic diplegia and walking may be difficult because tight muscles in the hips and legs cause the legs to turn inward and cross at the knees which causes a characteristic walking rhythm known as the scissors gait.
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	www.cerebral-palsy.us.com /spastic.html (454 words)

	eMedicine - Möbius Syndrome : Article by Cheryl Ann Palmer, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In facial diplegia without eye muscle involvement, the hereditary predisposition is greater, but recurrence depends on eliminating the known, genetically determined, primary muscle or anterior horn cell disorders.
		In one family, affected siblings were reported with facial diplegia, deafness, and mental retardation but without skeletal abnormalities.
		Nishikawa et al reported a child with a Möbiuslike syndrome (ie, facial diplegia and ptosis but with normal extraocular movements and no skeletal anomalies) with a reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 1 and 2 (p22.3, q21.1).
	www.emedicine.com /neuro/topic612.htm (3953 words)

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