Patient's question:
I just had a child two years ago. The child doesn't know how it happened, but all the peers have already started walking on their own, while my child still needs to hold onto things to walk and sways unsteadily. Their intelligence is also much lower than that of their peers. After checking, it turned out to be infantile cerebral palsy. What can we do about this? Our whole family is terrified.Doctor's answer:
Damage to the brain, although no longer causing lesions, leads to abnormal development of movement and posture, and even damages intelligence, language, and other complications. The main manifestations include delayed motor function development, poor self-regulation of limb movement, poor balance, delayed language development, delayed cognitive development, reduced response to the external environment, and inability to communicate with others. The individual is associated with epilepsy, hearing loss, and visual abnormalities (strabismus, amblyopia, blindness).Recommendations: Rehabilitation therapy is essentially physical therapy, primarily used for children with mild cerebral palsy, such as motor disorders, language disorders, and other symptoms caused by mild cerebral palsy. This rehabilitation therapy must be carried out by parents under the guidance of a rehabilitation therapist and must be persistent. Otherwise, it not only has no therapeutic effect but may also worsen the condition of children with mild cerebral palsy.