Early symptoms of neonatal cerebral palsy may include movement disorders, abnormal muscle tone, abnormal posture, and abnormal reflexes. There are individual differences in severity.
1. Dyskinesia: The child has delayed motor development, including large movements such as lifting up, sitting, standing, walking alone, and fine movements of fingers.
2. Abnormal muscle tone: the child’s whole body is soft and weak, the limbs are tight, and the child moves little or too much.
3. Postural abnormality: the child may have many kinds of abnormal postures and abnormal positions of limbs, which may affect his/her normal motor functions.
4. Abnormal reflexes: the child’s primitive reflexes, such as sucking reflex, foraging reflexes disappear with delay, stirring and kicking movements are obviously reduced.
It is recommended that parents should bring their children to the hospital in time when abnormalities occur, conduct relevant examinations, and give targeted treatment and therapy after clarifying the causes.