What methods are used to treat high muscle tone in children?

High muscle tone in children is a symptom of cerebral palsy. Usually, patients with cerebral palsy will walk on tiptoe, have affected intelligence, crooked mouth and eyes, and speech disorders. They will also have high muscle tone, which means that the child's limbs cannot be controlled normally, and they will become abnormally tense in activities. High muscle tone will affect walking. Children with high muscle tone are prone to falling when walking. Therefore, they need to combine exercise and rehabilitation therapy to achieve the treatment effect.

High muscle tone in children with cerebral palsy can also cause language disorders in patients, so it is very important to treat the high muscle tone in children with cerebral palsy. The high muscle tone of cerebral palsy can be restored through the following methods.

1. Exercise therapy: The purpose is to inhibit abnormal reflex movements and promote normal movements.

2. Rehabilitation care: Rehabilitation care is an essential part to consolidate the treatment and training effects of the children.

3. Drug therapy: The purpose is to change physiological abnormalities, promote brain development, reduce the degree of disability, improve function or prevent the occurrence of disability.

4. Traditional Chinese Medicine: Chinese medicine, acupuncture, massage, acupoint injection, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine is superior to Western medicine and surgery, and has basically no side effects.

Cerebral palsy has increased muscle tone: it is divided into two types: spastic and tonic. Spastic hypertonia is associated with damage to the pyramidal tract, and spinal reflexes are facilitated. When the patient's joints are passively moved, a sense of resistance appears when the muscle tension increases. This sense of resistance is related to the speed of the movement.