Question
Can pediatric cerebral palsy be treated? What kind of help can I get?
Answer
During the neonatal period, affected infants show little interest in their surroundings, have poor responsiveness, and their movements are significantly reduced. They even have difficulty with suckling and often choke on milk. If a doctor examines them, they may find that innate reflexes such as the rooting reflex, grasp reflex, and embrace reflex are weakened or even absent. By the infant stage, children may exhibit signs of intellectual and motor developmental delays, such as difficulty with leg abduction, knees that are difficult to extend, straightening the legs when held upright, legs crossing in a scissor-like shape, elbows and wrist joints in the upper limbs being Bend, and hands often clenched with the thumb tucked inside.