{"id":32026,"date":"2023-10-06T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T09:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.nefrocenter.it\/cerebral-palsy-in-children-what-it-is-and-its-causes\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T09:55:18","slug":"cerebral-palsy-in-children-what-it-is-and-its-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.nefrocenter.it\/en\/cerebral-palsy-in-children-what-it-is-and-its-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cerebral palsy in children: what it is and its causes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will he walk? Will he talk? Will he go to school like all the other children? In short, what will his life be like? This is the ordeal faced by the parents of children who survived the complications of a pregnancy or a difficult birth. Children born alive but with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy (CP) that leaves their families facing a thousand questions about the future. Most children make it, if CP (the acronym for Cerebral Palsy) is diagnosed in time. They will have an almost normal life, probably with spasticity in one or more limbs. Statistics say that 60% are able to walk on their own, 10% with help and 30% are confined to a wheelchair. An ordeal for families and for children, prolonged over the years, when rehabilitation and any surgery will take up the space of play, carefree days and freedom. Children who chase their independence, but who cannot control the areas of the mind needed to perform certain movements, pronounce certain words or sentences or read numbers with many digits, for example. They struggle every day to normalize a condition they have had since birth and which improves with long therapies that can last even decades. Substantial improvements, but ones that require years of sacrifice.<\/span><\/p>\n

What cerebral palsy is<\/span><\/h2>\n

Cerebral palsy is a neurological condition. It is characterized by brain damage that affects the areas controlling muscles and movement in general. The damage can also occur through ischemia or hemorrhage in childhood, but in most cases it is caused by asphyxia during birth. Brain damage that, at best, affects posture, the ability to communicate and even the affected person\u2019s perception of space. In the most serious cases, on the other hand, there may be intellectual problems as well as total motor disability. In fact, CP creates a disability that does not progress over time, so it does not lead to worsening but neither to a complete recovery, and it appears in childhood. The damage from cerebral palsy is defined as persistent. This is because the brain lesion cannot be repaired. The lesion itself, however, does not degenerate, since it is replaced by a scar lesion of the same kind. <\/span><\/p>\n

Classification of CP by motor function<\/span><\/h3>\n

One of the criteria for classifying cerebral palsy is based on motor function. <\/span><\/p>\n