An Alternative Therapy For Cerebral Palsy

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance to live to be one hundred years old or more, and the quality of their lives will be affected by the research and empirical data that is being generated by organizations dedicated to helping developmentally disabled adults live more meaningful lives. These programs also serve as a benchmark in the battle against cerebral palsy in general and provide valuable best practice examples, thereby influencing the American health care system as a whole. While the search for a cure continues, cerebral palsy represents a debilitating disease that can adversely affect the ability of sufferers to provide for the basic needs of living, but with appropriate treatment and care, many are able to accomplish far more than most observers might believe in terms of their independence, productivity and integration with larger American society, goals that are also legally mandated. To determine how these positive clinical outcomes are possible, this paper provides a review of the relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature concerning the role of United Cerebral Palsy in delivering high quality care pursuant to the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 as overseen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to determine the effect of this oversight on a representative

This excerpt was written by Anne E. Turner, her work has been published in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology book. Turner writes about the new treatment for children with cerebral palsy, Adeli Suit Treatment (AST). Turner believes there is insufficient evidence to support the practice of Suit Therapy. Turner first discusses the history of suit therapy and what suit therapy is. Suit therapy first began in 1971. Suit therapy was first used in a Russian space program, its intended purpose of suit therapy was to prepare cosmonaut for the gravity difference in space. Turner then transition to talk about what the suit looks like and theory behind AST. She says the suit is a very “form fitting” and is resistant to movement. The suit then can be attached to hooks, rings, and elastic bands, that can be used to help give pressure and support to the joints and muscle groups. The theory of AST is that the bands will help align the body by using aggressive movements in therapy that will help re-teach the body in muscle memory. Turner states the founders of AST believe that suit can help improve the communication between the brain and peripheral by increased blood flow. Turner says that AST requires vigorous massaging and stretching to lift the 30 lbs. and 40 lbs on your back or other areas of the body. She cites the study conducted by Bar Haim in her research. Turner claims that Barr-Hiam research is vague when explaining what activities the test subjects did.

Cerebral palsy is a disease of development of movement and posture which cause limit activity and disturbance in motor and sensory development in a child. A boy of age 5, is suffering from Cerebral Palsy. He has difficulty in walking due to neuromuscular impairment, difficulty in swallowing due to alteration in oral motor function, delayed growth and development due to decreased caloric intake. I will educate parents to provide a well-balanced diet, how to use an assistive device like a wheelchair, ankle-foot orthosis, and teach them to feed slowly and keep semi-upright position of a child during eating and drinking (Perry, 2013, p.1726).

I am a physiotherapist from Egypt .I am seeking to complete my PhD studies in the field of neuroscience as the main criteria of my practical experience is to deal with cerebral palsy children. Rehabilitation program for those patients is exhausted for therapists, parents and children. For therapist, the program needs high effort, for parents, the program needs a lot of time and money, for children, the program may be painful when doing certain exercises. Simply, the impacts on children and their families can be devastating. And life-time costs to the health care system can be very high. This is what motivated me to mainly focus on neuroscience as an important field that I come up with a new approach to addressing cerebral palsy by enhancing

"This is just wonderful," said Vicki Miller as she watched her son Joey run around Delco Park with friends. "He finally has the freedom to run like other kids."

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is an example of an upper motor neurone lesion and a general term for a group of neurological conditions that affect movement and co-ordination. It affects around 1 in 400 people, occurring in utero or the first few years of life. Multiple parts of the brain can be affected, resulting in different types and severities. Approximately 80% have upper limb involvement with problems in the wrist and hand being most frequent, which affect activities of daily living (ALDs) such as eating. Around 56% are prescribed upper limb orthoses, with only around half using them. Upper limb orthoses cannot be concealed which may account for this low patient compliance, or upper limb function

List the body functions and body structures that have been affected by the client’s cerebral palsy. Identify the areas of occupation that the client enjoys or values.

After observation, it was determined that each child showed some improvement in some areas, but the children also showed declines in some areas (Bailes, Greve, & Schmitt, 2010). Basically, it was determined that more studies must be performed to determine the exact results suit therapy has on children with cerebral palsy and spastic diplegia. This article appears unbiased; the children were chosen randomly based on specific criteria (spastic diplegia and cerebral palsy diagnosis), and their results were measured using criteria specific to their needs. Different health professionals observed the participants, including physical therapy and occupational therapy, which means, observation and conclusions drawn were based on multiple opinions. These factors cause the article to seem credible and show no bias. A year after this study was published another study was conducted that increased the sample size so the results of suit therapy intervention are more

Cerebral palsy can also cause pain, discomfort, emotional distress, increased dependency, and decreased independence. Cerebral palsy also affects body movement, reflexes, posture, balance, and muscle control, tone, and coordination. The disease can impact fine motor skills, gross motor skills, and oral motor functioning (Cerebral Palsy). Children with cerebral palsy may be slow in learning to walk or talk (Bunch 34). Because of all of this, people with cerebral palsy have trouble with speaking, eating, moving, learning, and controlling eye movements (Eurostemcell).

The conventional therapy was the therapy that the kids with cerebral palsy were doing before the study took place. The conventional therapy consisted of walking, standing, reaching, to help build strength. Most of the kids in the study received occupational therapy 2 to 3 times a week for 30 minutes. The pediatric aquatic therapy consisted of 5-10 minutes of stretching, then 40 minutes of exercises in the pool, and finally 5 to 10 minutes for cool down. The goal was to improve muscle strength and self-help skills while having playing and having fun. An example from the study, a six year old boy a level three on the gross motor function classification system, did worked on kicking walking in the shallow water for aerobic training. For his anaerobic training he focused on toe and heel raises, balancing on one foot, and hopping. Gross Motor Functions increased by an average of 4.7 points. This study showed thermal and mechanical effects. The thermal effects help lessen the pain and the mechanical effects put less pressure on the joints. This study proved that aquatic therapy is good for

Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders which affects the development of movement and or posture, causing limitation of activates due to the permanent stationary non-progressive disturbance in the premature fetal of infant brain. (Gabr) This type of brain damage can occur in the womb, during the birthing process or in rare cases shortly after birth. There are 9 distinct categories that classify the severity of cerebral palsy and are defined by the symptoms a person displays. Depending on the location of the abnormalities on the brain, several different symptoms are visible. CP has many effects on the muscular system such as muscle control, coordination, tone and reflexes. Cerebral palsy is also accompanied by mental retardation in a majority of cases. Cerebral palsy is also the leading cause of physical disability in children that also has the possibility to cause motor disability the continues throughout life. (Gabr)

In this paper I will be reviewing three articles that approach cerebral palsy with different concepts. Two focus on using telerehabilitation, and the other one focuses on immediate and long term effects of hippotherapy. These

The abstract concerning the health and well-being of children with cerebral palsy covers the “experience difficulties in early childhood and the requirements to utilization of considerable health care resources over time.” Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of permanent movement disorders. There are problems known with hearing, verbal speech, seeing, and swallowing. “Symptoms include poor coordination, stiff muscles, weak muscles, and tremors/seizures.” (Wikipedia) Many children that have this muscle disease also have sensory, communicative, and intellectual impairments and most likely are limited in everyday self-care functions.

Cerebral Palsy has become increasingly prevalent in our communities and it is important to understand what cerebral palsy is and how it affects language acquisition for those reasons. There are many linguistic subsets of language that are affected by cerebral palsy and this essay goes into depth the details concerning those aspects influenced. Cerebral Palsy is classified as a physical health disorder that affects the acquisition of language in the domains of receptive and expressive language by delaying the onset of phonology, semantics, syntax, and vocabulary development. Overall, there is a lot to learn about cerebral palsy and the influence it has on language and ways that these delays can be improved or managed.

The purpose of the study is clearly stated in the research article as being “…to examine the effects of task-oriented training on mobility function in children with cerebral palsy” (p. 308). No significance statement was in the report, however, it can be suggested that the significance was found in how much improvement is attainable for children with cerebral palsy with the task-oriented strength training therapy.