Spastic cerebral palsy is a disorder that involves muscle stiffness. Symptoms and signs may include difficulty walking, trouble manipulating objects, and vision, hearing, or speech challenges.

Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. Hereditary spastic Paraplegia (HSP) refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders characterised by slowly progressive limb spasticity and ...

Readers, this might be a little premature but I think disabled people could be seeing a turnaround in their public image over the next few months. First of all, our reputation as good-for-nothing ...

Rare diseases, as the name indicates, only affect a small part of the population. However, for those affected they are particularly challenging, often especially because research into such rare ...

After more than six decades in business, the Spastic Centre has renamed itself the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, arguing that these days the word spastic has too many negative connotations. To mark the ...

Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), also known as familial spastic paraparesis, is a term used for a group of inherited diseases that affect the upper motor neurons traveling from the brain through ...

Despite modern high-throughput sequencing, the genetic cause of most rare movement disorders remains unclear. A research team in Bochum and Tübingen has now solved one piece of the puzzle: The ...