METHOD TO PREDICT SPASTIC TYPES OF JUVENILE CEREBRAL PARALYSIS IN NEONATALS Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, pediatrics, diagnostics. SUBSTANCE: a newborn child should be taken by an occiput, a forehead should be directed towards knees and according to muscular tension it is possible to predict the given disease. Moreover, a response is determined to removal of reversely overturned head towards forward direction and according to its multiple return into initial position and, also, to the presence of subluxations of hip joints, rigidity of occipital muscles in area of shoulder, hip and ankle joints a diagnosis is easily proved. Availability of strabismus enhances the diagnostics. EFFECT: higher efficiency and accuracy of the method.