Cerebral palsy

Short characteristic of a disease

Cerebral palsy or cerebral palsy – an inborn disease of departments of a brain in the course of pre-natal development. Is acquired cerebral palsy extremely seldom, because of a craniocereberal injury or an infection.

Cerebral palsy is the most common cause of children's disability which is noted at nine children from one thousand.

In many respects such statistics is explained by insufficient study, complexity and unpredictability of this disease.

Reasons of cerebral palsy

The brain hypoxia is considered the main reason for cerebral palsy. The hypoxia can arise because of rapid or long childbirth when oxygen comes to the child's brain in very small quantities.

The contact with radiation and chemicals literally "poisons" a fruit therefore it is no wonder that the woman working at a harmful factory will give birth to the child with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy. Not less chemicals a disease provoke x-ray emission and influence of electromagnetic fields. Not small impact on formation of cerebral palsy at the child is exerted also by addictions of mother, pathology of function of a thyroid gland.

The injury got at childbirth or to them is the one more factor influencing development of cerebral palsy. The injury got at childbirth can seriously injure a full-fledged brain of yet not been born child. Most often in such cases there is hemorrhage to the subsequent death of sites of a brain. It is worth noticing that the children who were born by means of Cesarean section have practically no diagnosis of cerebral palsy.

Such infectious diseases as meningitis or encephalitis can also provoke a cerebral palsy.

The newborn's brain can be also paralyzed, intelligently defective without any birth trauma. It less healthy brain of children of this age is also struck with deep genetic disorders. These children, as a rule, seldom survive: such only 10%. In this case the main cause of illness - a hereditary factor.

Symptoms of cerebral palsy

At early age when the central nervous system of the child is created not up to the end, children with cerebral palsy almost differ in nothing from others.

Over time it becomes more noticeable that the kid considerably lags behind peers in development. It late begins to hold the head and to turn over, long time cannot sit without support, does not creep. Symptoms of cerebral palsy become even more obvious when the child a year, and on the first steps does not have also hints. The unhealthy child has also problems with hearing and the speech: he does not react to sharp sounds blinking, and begins to talk in 2-3 years. Approximately at the same age it is possible to notice that the child uses preferential one hand (dextrality or left-handedness).

The movements of the child with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy sharp and uncontrollable or, on the contrary, sluggish, most often, aimless. Spasms of hands and legs, and also a mandible can begin when crying.

The child at the age of 5-6 years can have a number of uncontrollable habits, for example, biting of lips, biting of nails. It is hyperactive, disobedient. He badly talks because he cannot control lips and language. At the child the hypersalivation caused by inability to control work of many groups of the muscles which are responsible for swallowing begins. At the patient with cerebral palsy the squint caused by weakness of the muscles which are responsible for the movements of an eyeglobe develops. Gait most often intense, the child literally goes "on fingers", at the same time legs are a little crossed and pressed one to another.

Treatment of cerebral palsy

In the best way on health of the child with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy physical activity, certainly, affects if it is resolved by the doctor. Occupations remedial gymnastics with specialists, massage, heat baths are what is necessary for rehabilitation of the patient.

Treatment of cerebral palsy assumes use of the drugs directed to improvement of work of a brain. Also the method of Voight which essence consists in recovery of natural models of the movement of the person, and also in formation of movement skills can be applied. The child has to learn to manage balance, to make the prehensile and step movements of extremities.

Reasonablly and wearing orthopedic footwear, in order to avoid deformation of foot.

The patient with cerebral palsy should be trained in normal walking, regularly and methodically to develop each group of muscles by means of trainings and exercises. Exercises for extension of muscles, on endurance and removal of tension will yield positive takes soon, and at a long course of treatment the child with the diagnosis cerebral palsy, will practically differ in nothing from the healthy peer.

Remember that for the child with the diagnosis cerebral palsy the best treatment is a benevolent atmosphere in a family, love and sincere hope of the family for recovery.