Objective To investigate the effects of lumbar sacral selective posterior rhizotomy on spasticity of upper limbs,epilepsy, strabismus, sialorrhea and dysarthria of patients with spastic cerebral palsy.Methods 825 patients with cerebral palsy who had received SPR between 1990 and 1998 were followed up for two years at least.Results Of 328 cases with spasticity of upper limbs,67(20.4% ) had partial amelioration of spasticity of upper limbs.Of 35 cases with epilepsy, 31(88.6% ) had lower frequency of onset or needed to take lower dose drug to control than ever.Of 386 cases with strabismus,132(34.2% ) had improved.Of 73 cases with sialorrhea,49(67.1% ) had improved, 21(28.8% ) had found sialorrhea disappeararnce.Of 456 cases with dysarthria,72(15.8% ) had improved.Conclusion Selective posterior rhizotomy has curative effect on combined symptoms in some of patients with cerebral palsy.