Nervous and mental diseases . se cases in children. In the hemiplegic cases the arm usually recovers less than the legor face and the athetoid condition is commonly confined to it. Con-tractures predominate in the foot and leg, producing an equinovarus,rarely a valgus, deformity, which is also favored by the shortness of thelimb, and there is some tendency to contractured flexion at the knee andhip. The toes are frequently cramped and distorted by the contract-ures and hammer-toe is a usual deformity, but when athetosis is presentan abnormal range of passive and active motion is found. In the
Nervous and mental diseases . se cases in children. In the hemiplegic cases the arm usually recovers less than the legor face and the athetoid condition is commonly confined to it. Con-tractures predominate in the foot and leg, producing an equinovarus,rarely a valgus, deformity, which is also favored by the shortness of thelimb, and there is some tendency to contractured flexion at the knee andhip. The toes are frequently cramped and distorted by the contract-ures and hammer-toe is a usual deformity, but when athetosis is presentan abnormal range of passive and active motion is found. In the facethe tendency to contracture is frequently only shown in an overactionof the facial muscles during emotional expressions as shown in figure91, the boy being pleased at having his picture taken. Any degree of1 Jour. Nerv. and Ment. Dis., Nov., 1902. THE CEREBRAL PALSIES OF CHILDREN. 251 mental enfeeblement may be present In hemiplegic cases^ but usually itis much less marked than in the bilateral form and may be practically.
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