Can cerebral palsy in children be completely cured? How to effectively treat cerebral palsy?

There has always been a lot of controversy about the treatment of cerebral palsy in children. Many people think that cerebral palsy in children cannot be cured. However, some people believe that with the advancement of technology, cerebral palsy in children can be cured. So can cerebral palsy be cured?

Can cerebral palsy in children be completely cured?

Cerebral palsy and other brain dysfunctions are the main causes of disability in children. Domestic and foreign data show that one in every 10 newborns is a high-risk baby with a higher probability of developing such a condition. They are premature, birth weight less than 25 grams, hypoxia before and after birth, jaundice damage, congenital infection, embryonic development defects or invasion of various harmful factors during intrauterine development, brain damage caused by critical illness within 1 month after birth, etc. After years of clinical treatment, we found that better results can be achieved as long as intensive training is carried out early on for high-risk children with clinical abnormalities and children with cerebral palsy. For children who were diagnosed with cerebral palsy and started intensive training 6 months ago, two-thirds of them can reach basically normal after half a year. For the remaining one-third who continue training, half of them can still reach basically normal.

Can cerebral palsy be cured in children? Many children with cerebral palsy who started intensive training late have made some progress, but it is difficult for many of them to return to the ranks of normal children.

There are three main reasons for missing the best training time:

One is that time is wasted on drugs or other therapies that have no clear effect.

The second is that it is not recognized early by doctors or parents.

The third reason is to give up because some experts say it is “incurable”.

How to effectively treat children with cerebral palsy?

1. Accurately measure the strength of spastic muscles and antagonist muscles: Before surgery, the strength of the muscles causing spastic deformity and their antagonist muscles should be measured to make a correct judgment and design an accurate surgical plan. To avoid poor results after surgery or even adverse limb deformities. Generally speaking, the correspondence between the agonist muscle and the antagonist muscle is: strong spastic muscle to weak spastic muscle, spastic muscle to normal muscle, spastic muscle to relaxant muscle, and normal muscle to relaxant muscle.

2. Children with cerebral palsy show deformities caused by the hypertonic agonist muscles: the surgery is performed on the agonist muscles, and the effect of the antagonist muscles will be apparent after the surgery. If the antagonist muscles spasm, the opposite deformity will occur after the surgery. If the antagonist muscles relax, although the spasm of the agonist muscles is relieved after the operation, the joint movement function may be lost because both the prime mover and the antagonist muscles are weak. Therefore, it is important to correctly assess the strength of the agonist and antagonist muscles and the corresponding relationship between them before surgery. This is also the treatment for cerebral palsy in children.

3. Principles for the treatment of multiple joint deformities of the lower limbs: For children with cerebral palsy who have multiple joint deformities of the lower limbs, such as the hip, knee, and ankle. It is not advisable to correct deformities of various joints at the same time. Among polyarticular deformities, there are primary deformities and secondary deformities. For example, hip flexion contracture or equinus foot can cause secondary knee flexion changes, and the primary deformity can improve. Therefore, before surgery, the primary deformity should be carefully judged and surgical correction should be performed. After surgery, the adjacent joints should be closely observed for a period of time, and depending on the changes, a careful decision should be made as to whether subsequent surgery is needed. This is one of the treatments for cerebral palsy in children.