My friend's premature baby has cerebral palsy are there different types?

Based upon the form of motor impairment, cerebral palsy can be divided into types:

• spastic cerebral palsy: Spasticity is often the result of damage to the white matter of the brain, but it can also be due to damage of gray matter. spasticity leads to a limitation of use of the involved extremity, largely due to the inability to coordinate movements. Often the spasticity occurs on one side of the body, but it can also affect the four limbs or be limited to both legs. When the condition occurs in both legs, the individual often has a scissoring posture, in which the legs are extended and crossed. Many patients with spastic cerebral palsy cannot control their output of urine. Besides the increased muscle tone there is also increased deep tendon reflexes, impaired fine and gross motor coordination, muscle weakness, and fatigability among other problems.
  
  
• choreoathetoid cerebral palsy: Choreoathetoid cerebral palsy is associated with abnormal, uncontrollable, writhing movements of the arms and/or legs.  the degree of symptom severity often varies, from mild to severely affected.
  
• hypotonic cerebral palsy: Hypotonia is diminished muscle tone. The infant or child with hypotonic cerebral palsy appears floppy -- like a rag doll. In early infancy, hypotonia can be easily seen by the inability of the infant to gain any head control when pulled by the arms to a sitting position (this symptom is often referred to as head lag). Children with severe hypotonias may have the most difficulty of all children with cerebral palsy in attaining motor skill milestones and normal cognitive development.often the result of severe brain damage or malformations.

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