What are the methods to treat cerebral palsy in children?

The number of children suffering from cerebral palsy is gradually increasing. The causes of cerebral palsy are varied. Some are congenital, and some are due to some other diseases. Errors occurred during treatment, leading to cerebral palsy. Treating cerebral palsy in children is a long process that requires patience. Let us introduce some methods of treating cerebral palsy in children.

Pay attention to nutritional treatment of children with cerebral palsy

Reasonable dietary adjustment is the key point of auxiliary treatment for patients with cerebral palsy. Ensuring the patient's daily balanced nutrition and eating more fresh fruits and vegetables is beneficial to the patient's physical fitness and has a certain auxiliary effect on the treatment and rehabilitation of cerebral palsy.

Speech helps treat cerebral palsy

After evaluation by doctors and speech therapists, treatment is provided according to different types of speech disorders, such as motor control training of the jaw, lips, tongue muscles, soft palate, etc., as well as training in comprehension and expression skills.

Surgery

When there is severe muscle contracture and joint deformity, corrective surgery can be chosen, and all parts requiring correction should be completed in one operation as much as possible to better improve function after surgery. For children with extensive lower limb muscle spasms and basically normal muscle strength, selective posterior rhizotomy can be used. Regardless of the type of surgery, there should be a standardized rehabilitation treatment plan to match it before and after the surgery.

Special education treatment for children with cerebral palsy

Pediatric rehabilitation treatment should also include special education for different intellectual levels. Therefore, establishing an institution that integrates medical care, childcare and education is a good model for providing comprehensive and continuous services to children.

The above are the methods for treating cerebral palsy in children. Cerebral palsy will cause certain obstacles to children's intelligence and some expressive abilities, and will also affect their education. In order to ensure the brain development of children, we should pay attention to some abnormal changes in their bodies when they are very young to see if they are lagging behind other children.