Question
When the local hospital diagnoses a child with pediatric cerebral palsy, the families are very shocked and don’t know what to do. Where should they go for treatment?
Answer
- Central nervous system motor disorders manifest as delayed motor development, significantly lagging behind children of the same age. It is only when parents notice difficulties in the child’s ability to lift their head, roll over, or sit that they discover that the child’s limbs are rarely active, especially the lower limbs, often showing paralysis, hemiplegia, or quadriplegia. Due to difficulties in voluntary movement, movements are rigid and uncoordinated, often resulting in abnormal motor patterns. 2. Abnormal muscle tone and posture. When there is a lesion in the basal ganglia, it mainly manifests as abnormal movements, increased muscle tone, athetosis, chorea, and dystonia; when there is a lesion in the cerebellum, coordination disorders and low muscle tone occur.