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Question Title: cp treatmentForum: Neurology Forum
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I have a son who is 4.5 yrs old and has CP(MRI done at 1.75 yrs was normal). Blood tests have been done to see if there are other causes for his muscular problems, all normal. He has been using a walker since 2.2 years old started army crawling at about 18 months old. He still uses a walker and wears DAFO's. The doctors say it is spastic diplegia but I believe it is more athetoid CP. Are there any treatments available besides PT that could possible be investigated(he really is not spastic, he is mixed). He was born at 33 weeks and weighed 5# 9 oz. and was on a jet ventilator for 1.5 weeks and a conventional ventilator 5 weeks. = I am afraid there are no dramatic new therapies available to treat CP. Regardless of the cause or subtype there is some degree of brain damage which will not recover. The best approach is to maximise his existing potential to allow other areas of the brain to take over the functions that are damaged, the damaged areas themselves will not regenerate. The way to make the brain take over functions is by means of repetive use and practice, in other words PT.
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