Member Comments are provided by individuals and reflect their personal opinions only. Under NO circumstances should you act on any advice or opinion posted in this forum. ALWAYS check with your personal physician before taking any action regarding your health! MedHelp International and our partners, sponsors and affiliates have no obligation to monitor any comments posted on this site, or the content and/or accuracy of such exchanges. MedHelp International does not endorse the views of any user.
Neurology (Expert Forum)
cp treatment
This forum is for questions and support regarding neurology issues such as: Alzheimer's Disease, ALS, Autism, Brain Cancer, Cerebral Palsy, Chronic Pain, Epilepsy, Fibromyalgia, Headaches, MS, Neuralgia, Neuropathy, Parkinson's Disease, RSD, Sleep Disorders, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury.
cp treatment
by meg__0__0, Nov 24, 1998 12:00AM
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.
