Due to impaired balance, patients who have<unk>  often walk with their feet unusually far apart (a wide gait). In addition, the low muscle tone caused by<unk>  causes people to appear very unsteady, as their body is constantly trying to counterbalance itself. Infants with the condition often take a significantly longer amount of time to be able to walk without support, and over 50% of all children with<unk>  experience some form of a learning disability or speech impediment. The condition, whether resulting from cerebellar malformation or injury, results in incomplete cerebral development and no two people are affected in the same way. In general, cerebral palsy is a physical impairment that affects posture and the development of movement.<unk>  in particular, is manifested in the performance of movements with abnormal force, rhythm, and accuracy. Patients have hypotonia (decreased muscle tone), signs of<unk>  (loss of full control of bodily movement), impaired balance and coordination, intention tremors, and a wide-based gait (in walking patients). Cerebral development typically occurs in the first two years of life when the infant is acquiring new motor and adaptive skills, consequently signs and symptoms of<unk>  begin to manifest during this time period. Typically patients fail to reach motor milestones and show a qualitative difference in motor development. During the neonatal period (first 28 days of life), children are noted to be lethargic, relatively immobile, and floppy. Moreover, hypotonia is greatest during this period, even though muscle tone increases with age, it never reaches normal levels. The limbs show weakness, incoordination in voluntary movement, dysdiadochokinesis (in inability to perform rapidly alternating movements), and titubation.
Ataxic cerebral palsy
Athetoid cerebral palsy
Infantile progressive bulbar palsy
Dyskinetic cerebral palsy
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
Spastic cerebral palsy
Periodic paralysis