If your child has suffered from spastic cerebral palsy, you may be entitled to recover compensation from a spastic cerebral palsy lawsuit case or settlement claim.
A team of birth injury attorneys and personal injury lawyers is investigating potential cerebral palsy lawsuit and settlement cases of family and parents of children suffering from spastic cerebral palsy.
Spastic cerebral palsy is the most common type of cerebral palsy, comprising almost 70-80% of all cerebral palsy cases. It is characterized by extreme muscle stiffness, tightness and spasticity (hypertonia or too much muscle tone). Children with this type of cerebral palsy may have difficulty standing, sitting, walking, manipulating objects and communicating, among other things.
Spastic cerebral palsy is caused by damage to cortical motor areas (motor cortex and pyramidal tracts that sends signals from the brain to the spinal cord) and white matter in the brain. It can be the result of birth related complications and injuries, including brain hemorrhaging, infection, brain trauma, and lack of oxygen to the brain during birth that can lead to brain damage (such as hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy, periventricular leukomalacia, brain bleeds and cerebral dysgenesis).
Spastic Cerebral Palsy Lawsuit Cases
Spastic cerebral palsy lawsuit and settlement cases potentially being investigated include claims of families and parents of children who suffered from the following types of celebral palsy as a result of possible medical malpractice or negligence:
- Spastic cerebral palsy
- Diplegic cerebral palsy (diplegia or diparesis)
- Hemiplegic cerebral palsy (hemiplegia or hemiparesis)
- Quadriplegic cerebral palsy (quadriplegia or quadriparesis)
- Triplegic cerebral palsy (triplegia or triparesis)
- Monoplegic cerebral palsy (monoplegia or monoparesis)
Spastic CP includes spastic diplegia, also known as Little’s disease (which typically affects the legs, hips and pelvis on both sides of the body), spastic hemiplegia (which usually affects an arm, hand, or leg on only one side of the body), spastic quadriplegia, also known as spastic tetraplegia (which typically affects all four limbs on both sides of the body, the trunk and face), spastic triplegia (which affects three limbs) and spastic monoplegia (which affects one limb).
Spastic CP Signs, Symptoms & Complications
Spastic CP signs, symptoms and complications can include, among others, the following:
- Stiff, tight or spastic muscles (spasticity)
- Involuntary arm and leg movements
- Muscle spasms and contractions
- Abnormal walking or gait
- Knees crossing in a scissor-like movement
- Joint contractures
- Shortening or hardening of muscles
- Limited ability to stretch
- Flexion (or bending) at the elbows, wrists, and fingers
- Inability to extend joints
- Poor coordination of muscle movements
- Jerky or exaggerated movements
- Limited mobility
- Seizures
- Cognitive impairment
- Developmental delay
- Other cerebral palsy signs or symptoms
If your child has suffered from spastic cerebral palsy, you and your child may be entitled to recover compensation from a cerebral palsy lawsuit case or settlement claim. Contact a birth injury lawyer to request a free case review.
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