Patient's question:
Premature birth took me a whole day and night to deliver, it was excruciatingly painful. The baby also suffered from brain development issues due to oxygen deprivation from being premature, resulting in leukomalacia and cerebral palsy. What are the treatment methods for cerebral palsy?Doctor's answer:
Cerebral palsy (CP), also known as brain paralysis, refers to a group of disorders that affect movement, muscle tone, and posture. It is caused by damage or abnormal development in the brain that occurs before birth, during birth, or within the first month after birth, when the brain has not yet fully developed. The primary symptoms of CP include motor disorders and postural abnormalities, and it is often accompanied by epilepsy, intellectual disability, language disorders, and other manifestations. The term is synonymous with pediatric cerebral palsy. The condition typically involves damage to the pyramidal tracts and extrapyramidal systems. This disease is directly related to factors such as brain hypoxia, infection, trauma, and bleeding. Conditions like rubella, herpes zoster, or toxoplasmosis during early pregnancy, severe infections during the second and third trimesters, severe pregnancy-induced hypertension, and pathological dystocia can lead to cerebral palsy in newborns.