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Cerebral palsy is a non progressive disease which occurs due to the injury to the developing brain. It can occur due to an insult to the brain during antenatal or postnatal period, when the brain is rapidly growing and forming different connections called synapses.
The causes of the insult could be:
As the child grows there are changes in the body due to various factors like growth spurts, illness, changing levels of activity etc. which makes the disease appear progressive. But the changes are due to the above causes and not due to progression of the disease in the brain.
Neuroplasticity or brain plasticity is the ability of the brain to get altered through environmental stimuli. As a part of the brain gets damaged in cerebral palsy, the remaining part of the brain tries to take the function of the damaged brain through its ability of neuroplasticity which is dependent on the outer environmental stimulation. Intensive and task specific exercises helps to modulate and re-establish connections both at the macro and micro level in the brain. This forms the basis of providing physiotherapy as the treatment modality in cerebral palsy.
Physiotherapy plays an important role in treating children with cerebral palsy. The aim is to make the child mobile, as independent as possible, and prevent the development of contractures.
Certain facts in physiotherapy:
Activities should be focussed according to cephalo caudal progression i.e. head control should be followed by sitting exercises and then standing exercises.
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