What rehabilitation is needed for children with cerebral palsy

Rehabilitation methods for children with cerebral palsy can be general treatment, rehabilitation, medication and surgery to reduce muscle tone of spastic muscles and improve motor function. 1. General treatment: strengthen nursing care, pay attention to nutrition and hygiene. Rehabilitation programs should be formulated according to the existing ability of the child to achieve maximum functional improvement. For speech disorder and incomplete intelligence, strengthen language and physical training to improve intelligence; for motor disorder, physiotherapy, physical therapy and massage are carried out to improve the motor function of the affected limbs. 2.Rehabilitation treatment (1) Motor rehabilitation: including correct lying posture, holding posture, locomotor training, head stability, turning, sitting, crawling, kneeling, standing, walking, speech and other training. (2) Sensory integration training: It refers to the combination of sensory information by various parts of the human organ and the integration effect of the brain to respond to internal and external perceptions of the body. (3) Music therapy: It can improve children’s coordination of limbs, language expression, as well as their interest and motivation in learning. 3. Drug treatment: mainly symptomatic treatment, such as epileptic seizures can be given to the appropriate anti-epileptic drugs; lower limb spasms affecting the activities of the trial of Benzhexol, baclofen and other muscle relaxation drugs to reduce muscle tone. Botulinum toxin injection can be used to treat spastic cerebral palsy. Brain neurotrophic drugs that promote brain metabolism can also be applied to facilitate the recovery of neurological function of the children. 4. Surgical treatment: selective posterior spinal nerve rhizotomy, continuous injection of baclofen into the subarachnoid space, orthopedic surgery and so on. It is recommended that cerebral palsy patients should seek timely medical treatment and rehabilitation training under the guidance of doctors, so as to avoid delaying the condition.