Cerebral palsy is one of the most common relative or acquaintance neurological impairments. It refers to child’s brain and can be expressed by kinetics or/and mental deficits.

The term cerebral palsy is used to describe a group of syndromes with a predominantly kinetic disorder due to a pre-existing impairment or disorder in the developing, immature brain, but often with a changing course.

In this group is included static encephalopathy of the first years of life, and not degenerative diseases or spinal cord injuries without brain’s participation.

Cerebral palsy causes kinetic dysfunction (motor and posture) due to muscle tone disorder.

Although that brain lesion is stable or there is no recrudescence it is presented a pathological neurodevelopment.

In cerebral palsy there is an impact in brain’s developmental procedure, on one hand there is a default neurodevelopment but at the same time there is brain dysfunction caused by the lesion.

Cerebral palsy is often accompanied by other disorders when the lesion is presented in other than the kinetic centers.

In these cases mental retardation and epilepsy can be presented as well as sensory integration, learning, perceptual and speech deficits.

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