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Cerebral palsy or CP is a common term that includes people with disabilities in neurological function associated with movement and posture. This disease is not progressive, and starts from the disruptions in the child’s brain development during pregnancy, childbirth or after.

What causes Cerebral Palsy?
The reasons or causes of genealogical cerebral palsy, has not yet been assured. Though, the children born under certain conditions are at high risk of its development. These conditions include: premature birth, the presence of a brain haemorrhage, the child requiring ventilator for more than 4 weeks, undersized child who does not cry during the first 5 minutes after delivery, the internal system disturbances in the kidneys, spine or heart, and the occurrence of seizures.

A few cases of cerebral palsy due to head injuries in early childhood and may occur after acute malnutrition, infections, or extreme head trauma in infancy and early childhood.

What types of cerebral palsy?
Spastic and athetoid cerebral palsy refers to a problem of movement, while quadriplegia, hemiplegia, and diplegia refers to certain parts of the body involved in the state. Spastic cerebral palsy refers to the inability to relax the muscles, and athetoid CP refers to a lack the movement control of muscle. In the spastic type may occur along with other species, and rightly so, as a rule, about 30% of cases of cerebral palsy. Read the rest of this entry »