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Hemiplegia
What are the symptoms?
The most obvious result of childhood hemiplegia is weakness or stiffness and lack of control in the affected side of the body. The child may have little use of one hand, may limp or have poor balance. The weakness may often be associated with spasticity (stiffness or tightness of the muscle). Some children with hemiplegia have additional medical problems such as speech difficulties, visual field defects or epilepsy. Many others have less obvious additional difficulties, such as perceptual problems, specific learning difficulties, or emotional and behavioural problems, which may be more frustrating and disabling than their physical problems.
Background
| Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis 
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