Anyone with experience of hypertonia?

[DuncanDisorderly]

Today I was told one of my twins has hypertonia. It's been obvious for a while that he is very stiff so it's not a surprise.

What can we expect in the way of treatment etc? He is due to be assessed by the Child Development Team in a couple of weeks so I will find out more then.

I also suspect his twin brother has hypotonia as he seems incredibly floppy. They were born at 23 weeks so problems were expected, I just feel bad 'labelling' them, kwim?

Hiya I don't with hyper but do with hypo. DS had hyperextension in arms, head tilt, tensor toning, low muscle tone since 4 months. How old are the twins?

The twins are 7 months old now and the older they get, the more apparent their delays become.

With hypotonia we had a neurotherapist come and assess DS. She worked with him through play therapy, exercises that would encourage him to use the muscles that were weak. It made a huge difference didn't take long to show improvement. Do you have good support around you?