When is the best time to treat pediatric cerebral palsy? Many patients don’t know much about this disease, some think that it can be treated at any time, and some even think that children will get better naturally when they grow up. This kind of thinking is very wrong. Pediatric cerebral palsy should be detected and treated early, and should not be left untreated. Once a child with cerebral palsy is clearly diagnosed, early treatment should be started as soon as possible. Ideally, early treatment should begin in infancy before 6 months of age. Why is the best time to treat cerebral palsy so early? Cerebral palsy is a syndrome of mainly postural and motor dysfunction caused by non-progressive brain damage during the immature stage of brain development from the first month of life. Cerebral palsy, also known as pediatric cerebral palsy, is a common central nervous system disorder in children, with lesions in the brain and limbs, often accompanied by mental retardation, epilepsy, behavioral abnormalities, psychiatric disorders, and visual, auditory, and speech disorders. Scientific studies have shown that the course of treatment can be shorter if it is carried out as early as possible! The newborn’s brain has a high tolerance to hypoxia, good self-protection, and high plasticity against brain injury. Its compensatory functional adaptations include regeneration of nerve cells, axonal bypass projections, unusual bifurcation of dendrites, and the production of unconventional neural contacts, and these changes play an important role in brain plasticity. Developmental biology proves that human brain development is mainly completed during the embryonic period and partly from birth to 2 years of age. Fetal period is the most vigorous period of human brain development; intelligence enhancement develops in parallel with brain growth, so before the age of 2 years, a good child-rearing environment has an important impact on brain function and structure, both in physiology and biochemistry. Early education is like building a perceptual bank to store experiences in the brain, which will make learning easier in the future. Seizing the optimal period of brain development for early education, the earlier the better for intellectual development. Which is the best way to treat pediatric cerebral palsy? There are many ways to treat pediatric cerebral palsy, and the following is a description of some of the most common treatments: 1. Medication Brain nerve nutrients, muscle relaxants, and blood-activating drugs. Including drugs that construct and repair brain tissues (cells), such as lecithin (including phosphatidylcholine, ceruloplasmin, sphingomyelin, etc.), which can repair damage to brain cell membranes due to trauma, hemorrhage, and oxygen deprivation, protect nerve cells, accelerate nerve excitation conduction, and improve learning and memory functions. 2. Comprehensive rehabilitation medical treatment, such as exercise (sports) therapy, including gross motor, fine motor, balance and coordination training; such as crawling, purposeful pointing (nose, ear, etc.), training of grasping, holding, sitting up, swaying, holding up the line (with back against the wall, facing the wall), in-situ movement (bending down to pick up objects, lifting the foot training, one-legged independence, in-situ jumping), walking, running; and then physiotherapy, including electrical nerve stimulation therapy, warmth therapy, hydrotherapy, and other physical therapy. Physical therapy, including electrical nerve stimulation, heat therapy, hydrotherapy; and occupational therapy, i.e., aptitude training, and such specialized hospitals or clinics are available in the city.