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Hypotonia

How is it diagnosed?

In some cases the doctors involved might decide to do specific tests to rule out individual conditions; in other instances the clinical examination will be sufficient to rule out serious conditions, and it should be noticed that the majority of children with hypotonia do not have a severe underlying problem.

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Medical text written October 2002 by Professor F Muntoni. Last updated September 2007 by Professor F Muntoni, Professor and Consultant in Paediatric Neurology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Neuromuscular Centre, London, UK.

 

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