PVL can cause a range of physical and mental disabilities from mild to very severe, but the most common is spastic diplegia, tightly contracted muscles in the legs that cannot function normally.
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They can include epilepsy, craniosynostosis ( premature closing of the skull bones ), spastic diplegia, cerebral hypotrophy, underdevelopment or iris or choroid, strabismus, nystagmus, glaucoma, or cataracts.
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Unlike any other condition that may present with similar effects, spastic diplegia is entirely congenital in origin that is, it is almost always acquired shortly before or during a baby's birth process.
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Overall, the most common cause of spastic diplegia is Periventricular leukomalacia, more commonly known as neonatal asphyxia or infant hypoxia a sudden in-womb shortage of oxygen-delivery through the umbilical cord.
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This then causes the joints to become stiff and the range of motion to decrease as the child grows . For the majority of children with diplegia, growth and development are not a problem.
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It is this clinic's opinion that patients with spastic diplegia or quadriplegia should have spasticity reduced first through SDR before undergoing muscle release or tendon release procedures, and other surgeons today share this view.
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Spastic diplegia accounts for about 22 % of all diagnoses of cerebral palsy, and together with spastic quadriplegia and spastic triplegia make up the broad classification spastic cerebral palsy, which accounts for 70 % of all cerebral palsy diagnoses.
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Before this method was described, different interpretations of commonly used terms ( e . g . diplegia, hemiplegia and quadriplegia ) meant that data recorded in studies were not always able to be assessed correctly at an epidemiological level.
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It is used to treat the spasms, cramping, and tightness of muscles caused by medical problems such as multiple sclerosis, ALS, spastic diplegia, back pain, or certain other injuries to the spine or central nervous system.
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In general, however, lower-extremity spasticity in spastic diplegia is rarely so great as to totally prevent ambulation most people with the condition can walk, and can do so with at least a basic amount of overall stability.
