CEREBRAL PALSY Whenever, a child is diagnosed as having cerebral palsy, the idea which comes to our mind that he is suffering from permanent brain damage and will be permanently disabled for life. Until now, it was believed that in the absence of effective treatment these children can not do their daily activity on their own for whole life and they have to be dependent on others and it was also thought that their life expectancy will be short. Most of the time parents used to wander from pillar to post in the hope of best advice and treatment and clinicians are always in dilemma regarding unpredictable out come. But truth is far away from this belief. These children can survive up-to the age of normal person with good quality of life if they are given good treatment by multimodal approach. It is also seen that quality of life & life expectancy depends more on ambulatory capability & other associated problems: so if child can be made ambulatory & their associated medical problems tackled in timely, their life expectancy can be improved a lot. Recently, due to new concept of SEMLS & OSSCS, most of our children with cerebral palsy can be given good quality of ambulatory life with little assistive devices so that they can be better mingled in society and their capabilities are utilized in a much better way. Disability - Apart from physical disability child can have lot of other medical problems like, Convulsive disorders , Feeding problems, Mental retardation, Constipation, Visual defects, Dental defects, Hearing defects, Sensory defects, Sleeping disorders, Speech impairment, Poor immunity, Growth retardation, Obesity, Behavior problems, Malnourishment, Perceptual problems etc. Cerebral palsy treatment surgery center children symptom India Pakistan Nepal Bangladesh Sri Lanka For More details Dr. Jitendra Kumar Jain jjain999@gmail 09453039213 trishlaortho
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 06:51:19 +0000
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