Question
Our child was born with some issues, and we soon noticed she was quite different from other kids. She would often cry loudly and couldn’t be consoled. She would also frequently clench her hands tightly. The doctor said she has cerebral palsy. How much does it cost to treat pediatric cerebral palsy?
Answer
The most common prenatal factors include genetic and chromosomal diseases, congenital infections, malformations or developmental abnormalities of the brain, fetal brain ischemia-hypoxia leading to periventricular white matter softening or basal ganglia damage, and others. Perinatal factors refer to brain injuries that occur during the beginning of labor to one week after birth, including hydrocephalus, neonatal shock, intracranial hemorrhage, sepsis, or central nervous system infections, ischemic-hypoxic encephalopathy, and so on. Perinatal factors may be an important cause of cerebral palsy in premature infants. The cause of spastic pediatric cerebral palsy in the postnatal period is encephalitis, meningitis, trauma, vascular accidents, and hypoxia. In the acute stage of encephalitis, motor function defects progress with increasing severity. In the later stage of the acute phase, motor function impairments are triggered by increased scars within the brain tissue.