Hypotonia or poor muscle tone, is a syndrome with different disease characteristics. In all cases, the main symptoms are: a decrease or lack of movement, muscle weakness and decreased muscle.
There are two types of hypotonia:
• Paralytic reduced or lack of forward movement and caused problems in the central nervous system.
• There is no paralysis: characterized by decreased muscle without affecting motility.
It is difficult to establish the diagnosis and origin of this disease, which often nerve originates. May comes in the central nervous system or peripheral nervous system.
Symptoms may show hypotonia at birth or in general at a very young child. Cases can be mild or progressive, leading cause of disability.
children Malnourished, abandoned, or those with hypothyroidism have a shortage of psychomotor stimulation, are more likely to suffer from hypotonia.
Hypotonia There are also genetic origin, such as in the case: atrophy of the spine, or Pompe disease or glycogen storage myopathies. Other hypotonia may be due to disease or injury in the months or the first year of life.
Hypotonia is a syndrome manifested primarily by decreased muscle, increased joint mobility and irregular abnormal posture.