Cerebral palsy is a descriptive term applied to a group of motor disorders of young children, in whom full function of one or more limbs is prevented by paresis, involuntary movement, or incoordination. Tacit agreement has been reached that progressive diseases and those characterized by transient motor disturbances should be excluded as well as those primarily the result of spinal cord lesions. Unfortunately the many different classifications of the various forms of cerebral palsy that are in use lead to great confusion, and free interchange
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