Cerebral Palsy Case Studies

Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Palsy is caused by a brain injury or brain malformation caused before, during or after birth, which is when the baby's brain is under development.As a result of the brain damage a child’s muscle control, muscle coordination, muscle tone, reflex, posture and balance could be affected because of this. Can impact the child's motor skill. In order to prevent your child from having Cerebral Palsy you have to be careful with birth injuries. In some cases, Cerebral Palsy cannot be prevented.
One of the best ways to prevent it is by the effort of the parents and physician. In most cases, accidents happen after the baby is born you can get in a car accident or the baby could have gotten a stroke and in that case they are hard
to prevent. When the woman is pregnant they should always try to prevent hitting themselves while pregnant. Sometimes Cerebral Palsy can not be prevented because in some cases it can be congenital abnormalities.
Some of the symptoms can be hard to see because of the kids with Cerebral Palsy will show signs and symptoms at the age of 3 to 5.Sometimes the symptoms can be visible like they may show symptoms of muscle tone which impairs the ability of the nervous system to coordinate muscle movement.
Another symptom can be reflex if the baby shows excessive reflex responses that cause twitching. Underdeveloped or lacking postural and protective reflexes are signs of Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy can affect posture which is when the right and left limbs will not mirror each other. Can also affect their balance this symptom can be recognized easily when the baby sits and it is not balanced on the seat. Some other symptoms can be unsteady when walking, difficulty to make quick movements, using his hands when doing activities that require balance. One symptom that can be noticeable is development delay this symptom can be easily seen in a
child.
Children with Cerebral Palsy can also suffer from gross motor function which is when their limbs may be too loose to properly support a child's movement.
Oral motor function can also be another symptom which is when they have difficulty using their lip, tongue and their jaw. They can have difficulty speaking, swallowing, feeding, chewing and they may also start drooling.Due to the lack of facial muscle and not being able to eat a child can choke due to swallowing difficulties which they would have a greater chance of them getting pneumonia and infections.One of the major things once diagnosed is to manage the child physical impairments and the overall health of the kid.Some of the treatments for Cerebral Palsy is therapy and adaptive equipment, but in other severe cases can require drug therapy and surgical interventions. Depending on what the specialist wants to do it can be different in each case.Due to lack of facial muscle they may have difficulties to eat, chew, swallow and communicate this is when this certain condition becomes number one priority to the parent. The child will need to have a lot of visits to doctors and therapy so they can help them out with
this. A overall treatment goal for Cerebral Palsy is to optimize mobility, control pain, prevent and manage complications, enhance social and peer interactions. Most children with Cerebral Palsy can live for a really long time, but they would have to regularly have to visit health care places and could also have surgery at some point. In other cases the children may not live for long. Some babies die pass or as soon after birth.
Some of the qualities of life for someone with Cerebral Palsy can live just like any normal person even though they may be having to visit doctors more often than others that are not sick. Cerebral Palsy children can interact with people and have a social life. They may play sports and have a good future ahead of them that is considered for them to have a excellent quality of life..A Cerebral Palsy child may have to require a higher level of care which they can feel different from the other kids.