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Acupuncture Treatment A Therapy Treatment for Cerebral Palsy

A new study published by the Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Center of Nanhai Maternity and Children Hospital in Guangdong Province, China suggests that using acupuncture to clear the Governor Vessel and to refresh the mind needling can accelerate the recovery of injured brain nerves and the reconstruction of brain function when combined with conventional rehabilitative training in children with cerebral palsy. Researchers evenly and randomly assigned treatment and control group status to 200 children with cerebral palsy. The effective rate in the treatment group was 87 percent, compared to 55 percent, confirmed by Gesell Developmental Scale tests and skull CT/MRI testing. To obtain the study, visit Clinical observation on infantile cerebral palsy. Acupuncture Acupuncture is a form of complementary medicine invented in China that is intended to treat disease and relieve pain. To some, acupuncture is a form of pain relief sought as an alternative to over-the-counter me...
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Acupuncture Treatment: A Therapy Treatment for Cerebral Palsy

A new study published by the Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Center of Nanhai Maternity and Children Hospital in Guangdong Province, China suggests that using acupuncture to clear the Governor Vessel and to refresh the mind needling can accelerate the recovery of injured brain nerves and the reconstruction of brain function when combined with conventional rehabilitative training in children with cerebral palsy. Researchers evenly and randomly assigned treatment and control group status to 200 children with cerebral palsy. The effective rate in the treatment group was 87 percent, compared to 55 percent, confirmed by Gesell Developmental Scale tests and skull CT/MRI testing. To obtain the study, visit Clinical observation on infantile cerebral palsy. Acupuncture Acupuncture is a form of complementary medicine invented in China that is intended to treat disease and relieve pain. To some, acupuncture is a form of pain relief sought as an alternative to over-the-counter med...
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Cerebral Palsy Recent Advances in Treatment

The functional priorities of a person with CP are, in order of importance, communication, activities of daily living, mobility in the environment, and walking. Medical professionals must remember that the patient and family have only a certain amount of time and energy to devote to these priorities and to various aspects of treatment. Gross motor function in CP is related to the degree of involvement, which in turn is a manifestation of the site and severity of the central nervous system (C.N.S.) lesion. This primary injury to the C.N.S. produces positive features such as spasticity, hyper-reflexia and co-contraction, and negative features including weakness, loss of selective motor control, sensory deficits and poor balance. Clinicians have traditionally focused more on the positive features because it is possible to treat spasticity, but it is the negative features which determine when or if a child will walk. The secondary abnormalities are best characterised as growth...
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Treatment of Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy can be treated in several different ways ranging from physical therapy to speech therapy to psychotherapy. Of course you can never discount the importance of prevention measures, which have become increasingly more available in the recent years. Pregnant mothers should be tested periodically for the Rh factor and immunized if necessary. Other preventive measures include but are not limited to: reducing exposure of pregnant women to infections prevention of prematurity recognition and treatment of bacterial infection during pregnancy control of diabetes, anemia and other nutritional deficiencies avoiding unnecessary drugs and medication light therapy for infants with jaundice If an infant has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy it is crucially important to start treatment as early as possible. Some of the most common methods of treatment include: Physical Therapy In cerebral palsy conditions, muscle development can often occur slower than bone...
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