However, the degree of variability among individuals with spastic diplegia means that no greater or lesser degree of stigma or real-world limitation is standard.
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Individuals with spastic diplegia are very tight and stiff and must work very hard to successfully resist and " push through " the extra tightness they perpetually experience.
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In the industrialized world, the incidence of overall cerebral palsy, which includes but is not limited to spastic diplegia, is about 2 per 1000 live births.
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Infants who survive may have severe neurological defects including epilepsy, impaired coordination, visual loss or blindness, spastic diplegia or quadriparesis / quadriplegia, delayed development and intellectual disability.
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Spastic diplegia's particular type of brain damage inhibits the proper development of upper motor neuron function, impacting the motor cortex, the basal ganglia and the corticospinal tract.
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A major qualifier in the cases taken on at SLCH, however, is that all of its adults have had only " mild " cases of spastic diplegia.
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Interferon-alpha 2a and 2b, given via subcutaneous injection, has shown efficacy against hemangiomas, but may result in spastic diplegia in up to 20 % of treated children.
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Derived via Latin from the medical condition spasticity, which is seen in spastic diplegia and many other forms of cerebral palsy and also in terms such as " spastic colon ".
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In spastic cerebral palsy in children with low birth weights, 25 % of children had hemiplegia, 37.5 % had quadriplegia, and 37.5 % had diplegia.
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Things like exposure to toxins, traumatic brain injury, encephalitis, meningitis, drowning, or suffocation do not tend to lead to spastic diplegia in particular or even cerebral palsy generally.
