ArticleJournal of child neurology2022
Spasticity and Dystonia are Underidentified in Young Children at High Risk for Cerebral Palsy.
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- Preterm birth is associated with dystonic features and reduced cortical parvalbumin immunoreactivity in mice.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Multicenter Improvement in Screening for Dystonia in Young People With Cerebral Palsy.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2025Article
- Thalamic deep brain stimulation improves movement in a cerebellar model of lesion-based status dystonicus.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025Article
- Targeting DBS to the centrolateral thalamic nucleus improves movement in a lesion-based model of acquired cerebellar dystonia in mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Mice born preterm develop gait dystonia and reduced cortical parvalbumin immunoreactivity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Caregiver descriptions of dystonia in cerebral palsy.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
- Timeline of diagnosed pain causes in children with severe neurological impairment.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Upper Extremity Dystonia Features in People With Spastic Cerebral Palsy.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2023Article
- Identifying Effective Treatments for Dystonia in Patients With Cerebral Palsy: A Precision Therapeutics Approach.Neurology · 2023Article
- Determinants of gait dystonia severity in cerebral palsy.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2023Article
- Under-recognition of leg dystonia in people with cerebral palsy.Annals of the Child Neurology Society · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundEarly spasticity and dystonia identification in cerebral palsy is critical for guiding diagnostic workup and prompting targeted treatment early when it is most efficacious. However, differentiating spasticity from dystonia is difficult in young children with cerebral palsy.
methodsWe sought to determine spasticity and dystonia underidentification rates in children at high risk for cerebral palsy (following neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy) by assessing how often child neurologists identified hypertonia alone versus specifying the hypertonia type as spasticity and/or dystonia by age 5 years.
resultsOf 168 children, 63 developed cerebral palsy and hypertonia but only 19 (30%) had their hypertonia type specified as spasticity and/or dystonia by age 5 years.
conclusionsChild neurologists did not specify the type of hypertonia in a majority of children at high risk of cerebral palsy. Because early tone identification critically guides diagnostic workup and treatment of cerebral palsy, these results highlight an important gap in current cerebral palsy care.
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