Cerebral palsy management and treatment

Cerebral Palsy Management and Treatment

Cerebral palsy is mainly caused by brain malfunction or brain dysfunction or brain abnormalities which occur before or during or immediately after birth whiles the infants brain is under development.

So let’s look forward how a brain injury hampers or affects the child’s motor functioning and intellectual abilities which is highly dependent on the nature of brain injury, where the damage occurs and many more.

Now a question arises in our mind then; What are a brain injury, birth injury and brain malfunction?

During the development of the brain or during the birth or after birth the brain injury or brain malformation that occurs points to the main cause of the cerebral palsy. Due to brain damage during brain development, as a result child’s muscle control, muscle coordination, muscle tone and reflex posture is affected and hampered. It also hampers child’s motor skills, gross motor skills and oral motor functioning.

Cerebral Palsy is unique to the individual. So the reasons behind the causes the cerebral palsy is:  Prenatal disturbance of brain cell migration: Several factors in genetic and environmental factors prevent the brain cells migration to appropriate location for brain development. 

Prenatal poor myelination of developing the nerve cell fibres: Poor myelin impedes the brain function that forms a protective covering over the nerve fibre that aids in transmission.

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Perinatal Brain cell death: Events in the birthing processes that ruptures the blood vessels or starve oxygen to the brain.

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Inappropriate connections between brain cells: Trauma, asphyxia or any other infections that damage connections developed in the brain.

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