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Understanding cerebral palsy

August 15, 2009 by Greg Leave a Comment

Cerebral palsy is a condition that occurs when the brain is still developing, usually because of anoxia. Cerebral palsy is a disabling condition pre-dorminantly affecting children during birth or shortly after birth. Babies affected by cerebral palsy may appear normal in their early months until about 4 months when the mother start noticing delay in milestones like smiling, rolling over and sitting at 6 months.

Cerebral palsy child

Depending on the cause of cerebral palsy, other manifestation like tongue thrusting, seizures, jerky movements may be noted. Manifestation depend of area of the brain that was affected by anoxia, severity and neural cells regeneration.

It is believed that cerebral palsy should not happen in the first place if the baby is under care of health professionals. In an event where cerebral palsy happen in presence of medical professionals, attorneys see this as neglect, preventable cause and downfall in health care practice.

Babies affected by cerebral palsy, depending on severity and the part of the brain affected, tends to be late in milestones development. In some cases, they may stagnant and stop progressing in milestones. They may appear rigid especially in upper extremities or they may not have any muscle tone.This makes a distinction of spastic and flaccid cerebral palsy where spastic is the rigid type and flaccid is the one without muscle tone.

Cerebral palsy full recovery is not guaranteed and children with severe forms of cerebral palsy may never achieve milestones beyond school age. Again, the predictability of how they will recover depends on severity of the injury and chronological age. Simply said, there is no way of predicting how well or how far a child will progress.

Pointing fingers on health care professionals is a common thing and most of the times, justified. Attorneys exploit this time of adversity to sue health care systems and professionals. Other things may cause cerebral palsy, e.g. meningitis.

Therapy sessions by occupational therapists, physical therapists and recreational therapist may help build up basic milestones and ADL’s.

I hope you enjoyed.

Filed Under: Nursing Tips Tagged With: birth injury, cerebral palsy, cerebral palsy attorneys

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