It is often said, "When God closes a door for you, He will open a window for you." But children with cerebral palsy are not so lucky, because God not only closed their doors, but even the windows were "welded". The root cause is that there are always people who say, "Cerebral palsy cannot be cured." So can pediatric cerebral palsy be cured? Before talking about this, let's first understand what cerebral palsy is.
The full name of cerebral palsy is "cerebral palsy", which refers to a syndrome caused by a central nervous system injury caused by non-progressive brain damage in the immature stage of brain development in the month before and after birth. Damage to the central nervous system may lose the inhibitory and conduction function of lower neurons, but the lack of inhibitory function will lead to spasm, hyperreflexia, clonic and other phenomena; Impaired conduction can manifest as muscle weakness, decreased selective control of movement, sensory disturbances, and more. If the child is affected by these factors for a long time, the limb will gradually develop contractures and deformation, which will seriously affect normal function.
The above is enough to illustrate the complexity of cerebral palsy disease, but whether cerebral palsy can be cured mainly depends on factors such as the degree of disease, the location of the disease and the time of the disease. Although there is no radical cure for cerebral palsy, it can be treated by improving external conditions. For example, for children with cerebral palsy who could not walk, through intervention and treatment can achieve walking, even if walking is not good-looking, but such progress will be of great help to the child's later life.
Cerebral palsy – early detection and early treatment are key! So how early does it really take?
In early childhood, children's brain development is not yet complete, and the various functions of the body are not perfect, so if the disease can be detected early and intervened, the treatment effect will be doubled, and the earlier the treatment effect will be more obvious.
So how to define this "early"? Clinically, early diagnosis refers to a clear diagnosis made within 6-9 months of birth. However, accurate diagnosis not only needs to be clarified in formal medical institutions, but also requires parents to find abnormal signals in their children's daily life. Once the diagnosis is clear, as long as we grasp the best time for treatment, the child is very likely to return to a near-normal state.
In addition, we parents must also make it clear that in the treatment of cerebral palsy, any single treatment method is limited, so a single treatment is not desirable. The treatment of pediatric cerebral palsy must be a programmatic systematic treatment process of "early intervention + surgery + rehabilitation training", and only such a comprehensive treatment method can achieve effective treatment results.