Cerebral Palsy maybe/maybe not

Direct Trauma Hemiplegia may also result from direct trauma to the side of the head. Because of the infinite ways one side of the brain can be wounded, there are many many sub-types within this designation. Anywhere a trauma may land, a different kind of functional loss can occur. An exactly similar wound in one spot can cause loss of use of one arm. Moved slightly it could instead damage speech. Moved another way, a blind spot may occur or perhaps a specific memory disorder... maybe behavioral inhibitions get lost. Like piano keys, same press in different places give differing notes. Common Patterns The most common postural pattern, that caused by arterial blockage, has the elbow and wrist flexed and the upper extremity more deficient of hand and arm function than is the leg of walking function. Sensation and self recognition of the part is often impaired as much or even more than movement per se. Sensory or positional recognition is a serious component of hemiplegia. We use this designation regardless of how many limbs are involved (mono, di, tri, quad). We might see half of a hemiplegia. (Who says the entire length of the artery has to be involved?) The full pattern - if bilateral - is called double hemiplegia rather than quadriplegia or total body (though it is total body) because it better describes the characteristic distribution of posture and sensory deficits seen in the arms and legs than does "quadriplegia" - something of totally differing cause and behavior. Left brain damage may well also include those brain regions that process what we call language as words - that is - matching words to thought and matching sounds to selected words and then actually speaking the words. If the damage is on the right side then speech facility may be normal but it