What are the early symptoms of cerebral palsy in children?

Cerebral palsy in children is one of the most common children's diseases nowadays. When faced with such a disease, we as parents went from worrying and tormenting at the beginning to facing it with a calm attitude, because we parents will actively choose to face it with our children with the principle of not giving up or abandoning. Usually, if the symptoms of the disease can be discovered in the early stage, it also plays a key role in treatment. Let us learn about some of the early symptoms of cerebral palsy in children.

Symptoms: 1. Athetosis: often manifested as involuntary "worm-like" movements of the limbs, head, face or whole body muscles. It gets worse when you are nervous or excited, gets better when you are quiet, and disappears after falling asleep.

2. Spastic type: Most children with cerebral palsy belong to this type, which is also the most common clinical type. The child has difficulty abducting both thighs, the knees are difficult to straighten after flexion, and the gastrocnemius muscles contract, causing Achilles tendon contracture. When held upright, the lower limbs are straightened, adducted and internally rotated, and the legs are crossed in a scissor shape. When walking, the patient has a "scissor-like" spastic paralysis gait, with the toes touching the ground. The upper limbs show flexion of the elbow and wrist joints.

3. Ataxia type: This type is less common and is mainly manifested by signs of cerebellar lesions, common nystagmus, dysmetria, unstable gait, shaking and intention tremor, etc. Muscle tone is low and tendon reflexes are not hyperactive.

Treatment:

(1) Rehabilitation massage: baby touch, whole body and local massage;

(2) Acupuncture treatment.

(3) Functional and intellectual training: Perception, audio-visual, language, memory and movement training, combined with comprehensive treatment of infant exercises.

(4) Psychotherapy: Talk with the child, observe his/her emotions, psychology, and interests, provide guidance and inspiration, adjust his/her pathological psychology, and develop intelligence through games and music.

(5) Exercise therapy: weight loss gait training, field therapy, occupational therapy, balance function training, sensory integration therapy, cultural and sports therapy, etc.

(6) Hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

(7) Physical therapy: excitatory therapy device, cerebral circulation therapy device, digital leveling therapy device, near infrared, composite multifunctional fumigation, etc.

(8) Water bath therapy: whirlpool, bubble bath therapy, water exercise therapy

When facing children with cerebral palsy, parents should first adjust their mentality, give their children more care, more patience and more confidence, give their children enough sense of security psychologically, and cultivate their children's hands-on ability so that they can learn some simple self-care. Finally, they should actively strengthen their children's rehabilitation training.