CEREBRAL PALSY: GENERAL MOTOR DISABILITY IN CHILDHOOD

Cerebral palsy is main general motor disability in the infancy and 2 to 2.5 per 1000 live births affected by the cerebral palsy. The movement restrictions in the cerebral palsy are credited to non-progressive interruption that occurs in developing brain of the infants. It is characterized by means of spasticity, weakness of muscle, primitive reflexes loss, interfering of growth of normal motor control. The motor disorders of the cerebral palsy are frequently accompanied as a result of disturbances of the cognition, sensation, perception, communication and behaviour. The frequent threat factors are, multiple pregnancy, prematurity, small-for-gestational age and infections of the maternal genitourinary. The causal pathways, classification of cerebral palsy and prognostication can play a role in development to prevent the cerebral palsy and arrangement of health services to assemble the desires of the affected infants with disease. This paper covers the causes, clinical features, types, risk factors, pathophysiology and complications of cerebral palsy.