The term cerebral palsy has been used for only a hundred years, and descriptions of the disease have varied and have gradually unified as the disease has become better understood. (1) Definition: Motor disorders and postural abnormalities caused by brain damage or developmental defects from various causes before birth to 1 month after birth. (Adopted at the National Symposium on Pediatric Cerebral Palsy in Kunming, October 2004)
Motor impairment refers to the fact that the motor ability of children with cerebral palsy is lower than that of normal children of the same age, and the motor self-control ability is poor. The child has poor motor self-control. The child has inflexible and clumsy movements of hands and feet or cannot grasp objects with both hands, has difficulty in head erection, cannot roll over, cannot sit up, cannot crawl, cannot stand, cannot walk, cannot chew and swallow normally, etc. Abnormal posture refers to: various abnormal postures of the body of children with cerebral palsy, abnormal postures during movement or at rest, such as: double fist clenching, double upper limbs rotating forward, flexing and abducting, double lower limbs inward, crossed, bending knees, and pointed feet becoming more severe the more nervous they are. (2) Diagnostic criteria: (1) the brain injury causing cerebral palsy (cerebral palsy) is non-progressive; (2) the lesion causing the movement disorder is in the brain; (3) the symptoms appear in infancy; (4) sometimes combined with mental retardation, language disorder, perceptual disorder and other abnormalities; (5) except for the central movement disorder caused by progressive diseases and temporary motor retardation in normal children.