Case:Description of the symptoms of hypertonia in infants: hypertonia in infants, stiff muscles in the body and legs, and stiff thumb buckles. According to the passive exercises on the Internet, the baby's hand needs a lot of strength to lift, but he does not dare to break it hard. I don't know how to alleviate it. Recently, I accidentally flipped it not very well. Ask your doctor to see if it's serious. What do you think?Thank you. Duration of illness: four months and ten days. Muscle tone is high from birth.
A:Looking at the child from **, he can now turn over on his own and see that the child's thumb is open. In the second picture of the child, the lower limbs are also relatively relaxed and naturally curved. Considering that the child's muscle tension is not particularly severe. Before, this muscle tension was very high. Is it the pediatrician's judgment?If your child's muscle tone is high, in addition to doing passive exercises at home, you can also take your child to the pool and let your child swim more. Swimming can also reduce your child's muscle tone and increase body coordination, and then train for a month or two. Do you want a doctor to see if there is any progress?Nothing has improved.
High muscle tone is my own judgment according to the online statement, I didn't go to the hospital, and I will play stiffly when I hold it, and it is not as soft as other babies. The baby's leg muscles feel obviously harder than the arm, and take her to do the exercise Feel a lot of resistance The arms and legs need a lot of strength to move, and the baby will cry if you do the exercises, and if you don't cooperate, do you want to continue to do the exercises, if you don't deal with it, will the baby recover on its own when he is old. In addition, I'll send another point** I always feel that her feet are particularly hard to smash, please help me see if the muscle tone is high.
A:You train your children and it's normal for them to not cooperate. You're trying, but you don't have the right approach, and it may even affect your child's bones. It's not enough to just look at the descriptions on the Internet. If you feel that your child is stiff, you will say that his muscles are highly tense, and then normal children will also have stiffness. Moreover, the fact that the hand you touch is hard does not mean that its muscle tone is high. This must be judged by a medical professional. In the ** just now, the child's hand is open and playing, but it is not tightly tied. Children are very inflexible when playing with toys.
It is said on the Internet that the sooner the baby is corrected, the better, so now it is more urgent, and I don't cooperate with the exercises, please ask if the muscle tone is high, if it is not treated, will it repair itself
A:If the muscle tone is high, of course, the sooner it is corrected, the better. If the muscle tone is not high, the correction will not only be ineffective, but will also cause an uncomfortable experience for the child, and the parent will also have a burden. I see that the problem of children's muscle tone is not very big, but the judgment of muscle tone not only needs to be visually inspected, but also needs to be touched with a certain technique to comprehensively judge whether the child is really hypertonicTherefore, I recommend that you take your child to the hospital as soon as the epidemic situation improves, and let an experienced doctor give you a face-to-face consultation.
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