PEDIATRICS Vol. 31 No. 3 March 1963, pp. 470-477
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THE PREHENSILE GRASP OF SPASTIC DIPLEGIA

Gordon D. Jensen M.D.1 and Margaret E. Alderman O.T.R.1

1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, and Spastic Children's Clinic and Preschool, Seattle, Washington

The prehensile grasp of 24 normal and 45 cerebral palsied young children was studied by the use of cinema-analysis technique. A group of 18 diplegics of the cerebral palsy group were analyzed and yielded a description of the most prevalent abnormalities of function. Some physiological and developmental relationships are discussed. A case is presented which illustrates the clinical implications of recognition of the subtle manifestions of neurological abnormalities.

Submitted on May 18, 1962
Accepted on August 15, 1962