What is bilateral spastic cerebral palsy? | Spastic cerebral palsy

What is bilateral spastic cerebral palsy?

Bilateral spastic cerebral palsy is a specific form of spastic cerebral palsy. It also causes movement disorders and spastic paralysis, but on both sides. In most cases, bilateral spastic cerebral palsy affects both legs.

There is excessive tension in the leg muscles, causing difficulties in moving the legs. This has a great impact on the movement of the person with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy. The legs can no longer be alternately lifted off the ground and put down again in an appropriate manner.

In addition, the movements are random and slow. As a result, the person affected suffers from a great deal of uncertainty when walking and also when standing. Therefore, a detailed and consistent physiotherapy and occupational therapy is very important as support. Often the patients are so limited that they are dependent on external help. Bilateral spastic cerebral palsy is the most common form of cerebral palsy, accounting for about 60% of all cases.

What is tetraspastic cerebral palsy?

Tetraspastic cerebral palsy is a form of spastic cerebral palsy in which all four extremities, i.e. both arms and both legs, are affected. The resulting motor disorders cause an interplay of various symptoms in the area of the legs, which leads to pronounced movement disorders. In addition, there are also the symptoms on the arms, as a result of which the affected persons in a pronounced form of tetraspacial cerebral palsy can hardly walk and are completely dependent on the help of others in everyday life.