Name: Macalino, Krisna Sheen B.

Year& Section: BSN 2 – B

Cerebral Palsy
1. Cerebral means:
a. having to do with the brain.
b. weakness or problems with using the muscles.
c. disorder of movement

2. Palsy means:
a. posture that is caused by damage
b. disorder of movement
c. weakness or problems with using the muscles.

3. It is the most common type and is characterized by a hyperactive stretch reflex, clonus
(rapid involuntary muscle contraction and relaxation, contractures, scissoring (when
scissoring is present, the child’s legs are crossed and the toes are pointed down.
a. Mixed type
b. Ataxic type
c. Spastic type

4. It is marked by involuntary, uncoordinated motion with varying degrees of muscle

tension; children with this disorder are constantly in motion, and the whole body is in a
state of slow, writhing muscle contractions whenever voluntary movement is attempted.
a. Rigidity type
b. Athetoid type
c. Ataxic type

5. It is essentially a lack of coordination caused by disturbances in the kinesthetic and

balance senses; ataxic cerebral palsy may not be diagnosed until the child starts to walk;
the gait is awkward and wide-based.
a. Ataxic type
b. Mixed type
c. Rigidity type

6. Children with signs of more than one type of cerebral palsy, turned mix type, are usually
disabled; the disorder may have been caused by postnatal injury.
a. Mixed type
b. Spastic type
c. Athetoid type

7. Hemiplegia means:
a. one side of the body is affected
b. where 2 limbs are affected
c. where one limb is affected

8. Diplegia is:
a. where 2 limbs are affected
b. where one limb is affected
c. where all 4 limbs (and usually the whole body) are affected.

9. Monoplegia is:
a. where all 4 limbs (and usually the whole body) are affected.
b. where one limb is affected
c. one side of the body is affected
10. Quadriplegia is:
a. where one limb is affected
b. where all 4 limbs (and usually the whole body) are affected.
c. one side of the body is affected