How Do You Get Cerebral Palsy

How Do You Get Celebral Palsy

What is cerebral palsy  

The word cerebral palsy taken from word "cerebrum" that means brain and "palsy" that means stiffness. According to Viola E. Cardwell, cerebral palsy is a stiffness that caused by something happened on the brain. American Academy of Cerebral Palsy (AACP) states that cerebral palsy any abnormal changes in motoric functions as the result from brain defects.

Cerebral palsy can't develop progressively or uncommunicable. It is not curable, but with educational therapy, and the use of technology, it can help people with cerebral palsy to have a productive life. It is not a disease! Children with cerebral palsy will go with it in their entire life.

How Do You Get Cerebral Palsy: Prenatal Brain Damage

1. Mothers with infections or diseases while pregnancy, so they attack fetal brain. For example: syphilis, rubella, and abdominal typhus.
2. Pregnancy abnormalities that disturbs fetal brain circulatio, placenta suppression that destroys the formation of brain nerves.
3. Radiation that affects fetus, in which radiation can influence central nervous system so it disturbs its structure and function.
4. Rhesus (Rh) incompability, while mother's Rh and fetal's Rh should similar so the metabolism process can go normally. If different, it triggers rejection that causes mother-fetus abnormality.
5. Pregnant mothers experience accident or impact that disturbs central nervous system formation.

How Do You Get Cerebral Palsy: Brain Damage That Happens on Labor Process

1. Labor process takes too long and causes asphyxia; less oxygen makes disturbance on metabolic system on neonatal brain and breaks the nerve tissue.
2. The use of forceps; high pressure of it at baby's head can damage brain nerve.
3. The use of excessive anestetics agents while caesarian section can influence baby's nervous system so it disturbs its function or structure.
4. Premature labor, while actually the body is still immature so it causes physiological abnormality and baby's susceptibility against infection or disease that damages the nervous system.

How Do You Get Cerebral Palsy: Post-natal until 5 years Disturbance

1. Direct accident that destroys baby's brain: severe impact on the head
2. Infection that attacks brain, like: meningitis, encephalitis, acute influenza.
3. Typhoid or dyphteri that more likely causes anoxia (less oxygenation)
4. Carbonmonoxide intoxication. 
5. Strangulation
6. Brain tumor

Cerebral Palsy Treatments 

1. Any treatments to maximize the developmental process: movement therapy, learning, speech, hear, and socio-emotional developmental therapy.
2. Drugs, surgery, and braces can improve muscular function.
3. Professional team will cooperate to know child medical needs, like: therapyst, psycologist, psychiatrist, teacher, nurse, social workers.
4. Find some second opinions and supports from the experts 
5. The use of drugs depends on symptoms.
6. Early and intensive physiotherapy
7. Educations that appropriate to child intelligence
8. Occupational therapy
9. Speech therapy.