Cerebral Palsy maybe/maybe not

lots of stuff). The glia cells have the space. They – in a sense – feed the neurons. Energy rich stuff is made upstream and then passed down the axons to the synapses charged and ready to go. It is very possible that the amount of energy demanding packets for certain tasks is more than can be supplied in real time. So, there has to be both surplus reservoirs to hold reserves and periods to catch up – yawn… zzzzzzzzz Ssssssllllleeeeep zzzzzzzz

General Terms You Hear in Cerebral Palsy Clinics

Monoplegia Paraplegia Triplegia Quadriplegia - words that pretend that the speaker can count to four - in Greek. These terrible words just won't go away and are typically sought by insurers as if they actually had medical meaning. They don't. Hemiplegia - one side of the body involved. The opposite side of the brain probably lost flow to the middle cerebral artery by any of several means. Plugged by a clot? Hemorrhage can also do this.

Typical of hemiplegia from damage to the brain region served by the middle cerebral artery, or one of its branches, is more dense involvement of the arm than of the leg as the hand and arm representation on the brain surface is in

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