Patient's question:
I am currently a child diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Right now, the entire child's head is very painful and difficult to lift. I want to take the child for rehabilitation training and seek some medication treatment, but I don't know how to treat cerebral palsy children well in daily life. How is the rehabilitation of cerebral palsy children done?Doctor's answer:
In addition to physical therapy, other aspects of treatment should also be strengthened. The head should be in the middle position: The head of a child with cerebral palsy is usually tilted to one side. Parental care Whether lying down, hugging, sitting, or standing, parents should pay attention to the head being in the middle line. Stop drooling: Most children with cerebral palsy drool. This is because facial muscles and swallowing are simultaneously in an uncoordinated state, jaw function is incomplete, and the swallowing reflex is not sensitive. Use side-lying position: When the child with the disease is lying in bed to play or sleep, the side-lying position should be adopted. This helps relieve the tension of spastic muscles and also benefits the symmetry of the limbs. It's easy to place the hand on the chest. Hand function training: The condition of children with cerebral palsy is usually that the lower limbs are heavier than the upper limbs, and the upper limbs retain some function. Parents should always let the child with the disease grasp objects and then grasp and play.