Oh yeah, the new term is ****pharesis instead of ****plegia, as, I suppose,
plegia implied paralysis.  As Bobby quoted earlier, "a rose by any other
name...."

=Kyle

-----Original Message-----
From: BG Greer, PhD
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 7/5/02 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: CP Classification (Was: Re: A new aging survey for the list)

Truth be told, we are all mixed. Spastic, athetoid and ataxia depends on
which pathological reflexes are still present. Most of these reflexes
should
disappear as we past certain developmental milestones, but with the
initial
motor damage, some of them persist.

Bobby

>CP is so varied, it's hard to classify sometimes.  For example, I've
been
>diagnosed both as a spastic paraplegic and a spastic diplegic, although
>the majority of my doctors have gone with the spastic paraplegia
category.
> I suupose it's where most of the CP is located that's the final clue.