Cerebral Palsy maybe/maybe not

Start with inventory . Look at actions that do work. What is common to what works? Is what works conditional on any CONTEXT such as posture, a drug, some movement oddity? What seems to be trying? Maybe not succeeding but maybe with a barrier altered, maybe it could help? What makes it worse? Or, better? How much of what isn’t working is the patient aware?

Not all muscles are just ‘muscles’. Some are key to sensing. Some act on just one joint. Some adjust a common tension between two or more joints. Some just go for the ride but report back as to what is good or amiss. A muscle may be ‘more spastic’ simply because though it is of the same spasticity, it attaches further away and therefore travels further in the same time. The distribution of a velocity abnormality may well be simply geometric rather than neurological.

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