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Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral Palsy is a term used to describe a set of chronic disorders that impair the brain's ability to adequately control movement and posture. This disruption in the brain’s ability to control movement and posture is caused by faulty development or damage to the motor areas in the brain.
Common causes of Cerebral Palsy are breech presentation, complicated labor or delivery, low birth weight, nervous system malformations, maternal bleeding or severe proteinuria, maternal hyperthyroidism, seizures in the newborn and doctor errors.
Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, low birth weight, delayed development and mental retardation.
According to the United Cerebral Palsy Association, more than 500,000 Americans have cerebral palsy and there is no cure for Cerebral Palsy. Approximately one-third of children who have cerebral palsy are mildly intellectually impaired, while approximately one-third of children are moderately or severely impaired. The remaining one third of children who have cerebral palsy are normal intellectually.
Common Cerebral Palsy Symptoms include the following:
• Seizures: Half of all children with cerebral palsy have seizures
• Growth problems: Failure to thrive, a general term used to describe children who lag behind in growth and development, is common in children with moderate-to-severe cerebral palsy, especially those with spastic quadriparesis. Failure to thrive usually takes the form of too little weight gain. In young children, failure to thrive can appear as abnormal shortness; in teenagers, it may also include a lack of sexual development.
• Impaired vision or hearing: A large number of children with cerebral palsy have a condition called strabismus, in which the eyes are not aligned because of differences in the left and right eye muscles. In an adult, this condition causes double vision. In children, the brain may compensate by ignoring signals from one of the misaligned eyes. If left untreated in children, this can lead to very poor vision in one eye.
• Impaired hearing: Hearing problems are more frequent among those with cerebral palsy than among those in the general population.
• Abnormal sensation and perception: Some children with cerebral palsy have difficulty with the ability to feel sensations such touch and pain. Children may also have difficulty perceiving and identifying objects using their sense of touch (stereognosia).
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