Muscle tension is the basis of maintaining people's various postures and normal movements, which is manifested in many forms. The harm of high muscle tone to patients is very serious, which requires everyone to have a detailed understanding of the harm of high muscle tone and do a good job in disease prevention in life.

Experts pointed out that infants and young children often have high muscle tension, and besides abnormal posture, there will be some other hazards. First introduce the dangers of high muscle tension.

1. Mental retardation: About 2/3 children are mentally retarded, about 65,438+0/4 are severely mentally retarded, especially those with spastic quadriplegia and high muscle tension. It is rare for a child with wriggling hands and feet to have severe mental retardation.

Second, motor dysfunction: poor motor self-control ability. In severe cases, people can't grasp things with their hands and can't walk with their feet. Some people can't even turn over, sit up, stand, chew and swallow normally.

Third, tooth development disorders: teeth are loose and easy to break, oral and facial dysfunction, facial muscles and tongue muscles sometimes spasm or contract uncoordinated, chewing and swallowing difficulties, oral closure difficulties, drooling.

Fourth, sensory and cognitive abnormalities: children with high muscle tone often lack the ability of touch, position, entity and two-point discrimination. Most children lack the correct visual space and three-dimensional sense, and the cognitive function defect is more prominent. Children's ability to recognize complex graphics is poor, they can't tell the relationship between the shape of an object and its spatial background, and their ability to recognize colors is poor.