What is Cerebral Palsy?

No Neck holding? No body Control? Milestones delayed?. This article will explain what is Cerebral Palsy? Causes of Cerebral Palsy? and what is the best homeopathic treatment for Cerebral Palsy.

What is Cerebral Palsy?

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a neurological disorder that has an effect on motor functions i.e. body movement, muscle control and coordination, muscle tone and reflex, posture and balance, fine and gross motor skills, and oral motor functioning. It is considered the most common motor disability in childhood. The symptoms of CP may vary from individual to individual. CP does not deteriorate, although the symptoms may vary over a person’s lifetime. They may also have a learning disability, disturbance in vision, speech or hearing, convulsion, deformity in joints and spine, etc.

Types of Cerebral Palsy

Can be classified in many ways. A few of them are given below :

• Mild
• Moderate
• Severe
• Spastic
• Non-Spastic
• Athetoid
• Ataxic
• Mixed

Signs and Symptoms of Cerebral Palsy

Children suffering from Cerebral Palsy show features as:

• Delayed milestones like rolling over, crawling, sitting
• Excessive reflex response
• Variations in muscle tone, either hypertonia (stiff and rigid) or hypotonia (floppy and relaxed)
• Difficulty in sitting or standing or doing motor activities
• Impairment of co-ordination and control i.e. walking on the toes, a crouched gait, or a scissored gait; waddling gait, etc.
• weakness in one or more limb i.e. arm or legs;
• excessive drooling or difficulty in swallowing or feeding or speaking;
• shaking (tremor) or random involuntary movements;
• difficulty with fine motor movements such as writing or buttoning a shirt.

They also have a small degree of intellectual disability.

Prevalence Rate

3 out of 1000 children suffer from Cerebral Palsy

Causes

Cerebral Palsy is caused by damage to the developing brain either in

• prenatal (before birth) - Genetic and environmental
• perinatal (during birth) - Trauma during delivery i.e. rupture to blood vessels or lack of oxygen to the brain
• postnatal period (after birth) - Trauma, infections, etc.

HomoeoCARE's Approach

All Cerebral Palsy individuals suffer from physical disability but the severity varies from person to person. Homeopathic medicines help in strengthening muscle power and tries to maintain a balance and coordination of the body. At HomoeoCARE our approach is different for each case as no two individuals suffering from cerebral palsy are the same. We take a detailed case history, study it in-depth and try to find the most appropriate and accurate medicine for that particular patient. Homeopathic medicines are known to have an effect on the brain. Homeopathic medicines have dual effect i.e. stimulate the brain to function at its optimum and also they have a positive effect on muscles which helps in balance and co-ordination.

Modern medicine believes that brain cells once damaged cannot regenerate but in certain cases, we have seen this miraculous regeneration of brain cells.