Cerebral Palsy ( CP - CerebralPalsy )
   
The word cerebral means having to do with the brain The word palsy means a weakness or problem in the way a person moves or how he positions his body. A Child with CP might have trouble controlling the muscles in his body. Normally, the brain tells the rest of the body exactly what to do and when to do it. But because CP affects the brain, depending on what part of the brain is affected, a child might not be able to walk, talk, eat, or play the same way most children do.

Types of Cerebral Palsy :

There are four types of cerebral palsy: spastic (say: spass-tick), athetoid (say: ath-uh-toid), ataxic (say: ay-tak-sick) and mixed (combination of any two).

Signs and Symptoms :

The most common type of CP is spastic. A kid with spasticity can't relax his muscles or his muscles may be stiff. Athetoid CP affects a kid's ability to control his muscles. This means that the arms or legs that are affected by athetoid CP may flutter and move suddenly. A kid with ataxic CP has problems with balance and coordination.

Some kids with CP use wheelchairs and others walk with the help of crutches or braces. In some cases, a kid's speech may be affected or he might not be able to speak at all. To learn more about CP, what causes it, and what living with CP is like, keep reading.

Cerebral palsy is very difficult and challenging to all sciences of healing. Allopathic system has no effective medicine to help except physiotherapy, surgical corrections and many psychological aids. But it has helped very little.

So my Doctor stressed on looking into alternative systems. Finally, out of all systems, by comparison, we chose homeopathic system, and it gave us the most satisfactory results. After treating about 2000 CP patients, Specialist finalised few observatory conclusions. I summaries them below.
   

The improvement, in most of the cases, starts from the 1st month of treatment and 2nd month of treatment in others.

In cerebral palsy, the motor area of cerebral cortex is damaged along with other areas of brain.

The commonest causes are birth injuries, obstetrical complications, high-grade fevers, and prolonged jaundice at birth, head injury and genetically aberrations.

So, our job is to repair the damaged area maximum possible. The exact extent of damage caused is difficult to assess, but CAT scan, MRI, PET, Psychological tests, I.Q. tests, clinical sensory motor developmental mile stones and other tests can give rough idea about the damage.

The brain development normally completes within 5 years of age. CP child has damaged brain, so it develops very slowly. It is mostly; motor area damaged, so motor mile stone comes alter. Depending upon the severity of damage, the development will occur.

Apart from the brain damage, the poor management and spasticity adds to orthopedic disabilities. These children have low resistant power, so gets frequent infections of URI (cold, cough and fever), diarrhea, malaria etc.

Now, How homeopathy can help these children?

Homeopathy helps these children in many ways.

Firstly, it improves I.Q., which no other system can do. It improves neuromuscular abilities, so motor milestones start appearing faster. It improves in swallowing, neck handling, sitting, standing and walking. It improves in understanding of the child and calculating capacity, schooling capacity.

Secondly, it completely stops recurrent infections. So deterioration of the child stops and regains immunity to fight diseases.

It helps in improving flaccidity, spasticity of limb muscles, squint deglutition. (Hence food taking)

Who are the most suitable candidates for homeopathic treatment?
    

The earlier the age, the better success. Results are the best between 1½ years to 5 years. The success rate in selected patients is above 90%. Between the patients of age group 5 - 10 years, the success rate is 50% - 60% and above 10 years, the success rate is only 10% - 15 %.

The severity of the damage: the most sever damage has success rate of 20% - 30% and mild damage has success rate of almost 95%. The criteria of severity are :

I.Q. less than 40 are severe, I.Q. between 40 - 70 is moderate, and I.Q.-70 - 80 is mild.

Fortunately, severely damaged children are statistically less. So, mostly children with mild and moderate damage are the best helped by homeopathy.

Homeopathy can help in majority of cases. The improvement in most cases starts within first two months of treatment. The maximum benefit can be derived within 12 - 14 months of treatment, in majority of cases. The basic idea of homeopathic treatment is to put the majority of children to the normal school. So for them ideally treatment should start from 2 to 2½ years of age. So that, at the age of 3 - 4 years child is fit for schooling. With homeopathy, we need no orthopedic corrections or operations. It does not need vigorous physiotherapy also.