Spastic Cerebral Palsy    Discovery  Cerebral Palsy was first discovered and medically defined in  by Dr William John Little httpcerebralpalsyorgaboutcerebralpalsyhistoryandoriginofcerebralpalsy    Little attributed the disease to a lack of oxygen to an infant during abnormal forms of labor resulting in a spastic condition His work on the disease was so groundbreaking that it was first known as Littles Disease httpcerebralpalsyorgaboutcerebralpalsyhistoryandoriginofcerebralpalsy   Definition  Cerebral palsy is a disease that effects the brain and nervous system The disease can be divided into various subsets including spastic cerebral palsy dyskinetic cerebral palsy ataxic cerebral palsy hypotonic cerebral palsy and mixed httpwwwncbinlmnihgovpubmedhealthPMH  Spastic Cerebral Palsy is the most common form of this disease httpwwwncbinlmnihgovpubmedhealthPMH It is distinguishable from other forms of Cerebral Palsy in that sufferers display stiff jerky movements and have hypertonic muscles httpwwwmerriamwebstercommedlineplusspasticcerebralpalsy This differs from NonSpastic cerebral palsy which causes decreased or fluctuating muscle tone httpcerebralpalsyorgaboutcerebralpalsytypescm   Spastic Cerebral Palsy can itself be divided into unique categories  Spastic hemipelegia Only one side of the body is effected in spastic hemipelgia  Spastic dipelgia  limbs are effected in Spastic dipelgia  Spastic triplegia  limbs are effected in Spastic diplegia Spastic quadripelgia All  limbs are effected in Spastic quadriplegia