What is Cerebral Palsy?!
Question: What is Cerebral Palsy!?
Okay this may sound strange but since around March these strange words keep popping in my head!. "I'm dying of Cerebral Palsy" and I am drop dead serious that I have never heard of this in my entire life and I thought I just made it up in my head!. So then I got curious and decided to search about it and I found out that it's really a medical condition called cerebral palsy! So do you think this may mean anything in specific!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Cerebral Palsy means "brain centered paralysis"!.
It is a non-progressive neuromuscular disorder resulting from damage to or altered structure of the part of the brain responsible for controlling motor function!.
May be caused by a variety factors:
> trauma or anoxia to mother or baby!.
> fetal distress
> breech deliveries with delay or head trauma to the infant postnatally!.
Common systems are:
> spasticity
> athetosis
> ataxia
> tremors
> rigidity
> mental retardation
> hearing loss
> defective speech
> visual disabilities
> orthopedic problems
Physical therapy intervention is badly needed to prevent contractures and drug therapy (Valium, Baclofen, Soma)!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
It is a non-progressive neuromuscular disorder resulting from damage to or altered structure of the part of the brain responsible for controlling motor function!.
May be caused by a variety factors:
> trauma or anoxia to mother or baby!.
> fetal distress
> breech deliveries with delay or head trauma to the infant postnatally!.
Common systems are:
> spasticity
> athetosis
> ataxia
> tremors
> rigidity
> mental retardation
> hearing loss
> defective speech
> visual disabilities
> orthopedic problems
Physical therapy intervention is badly needed to prevent contractures and drug therapy (Valium, Baclofen, Soma)!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
cerebral palsy is most common in kids and diagnosed when you're around age 3! maybe u should check with your doctor!.!.!.i dont really think that yahoo answers can do a lot for you and all the problems you have!.!.!.!.!.! OH I KNO!.!.!.!.!.CHECK THE INTERNET WHERE DO YOU THINK WE GET THE INFO FROM! DUH! You have a vivid!.!.!.!.wild imagination! i think u are a hypochondriac!.!.!.meaning u have hypochondria! look it up if you dont know wat it means!.!.!.!.no why dont i tell you, it means u think u have this and that but its all in your mind! amateurs!Www@Answer-Health@Com
Cerebral refers to the affected area of the brain, palsy refers to disorder of movement!. Cerebral Palsy is caused by damage to the motor control centers of the young developing brain and can occur during pregnancy, during childbirth or after birth up to about age three!.Www@Answer-Health@Com