Can cerebral palsy be cured?

  Can cerebral palsy be cured? This is often the first question parents want to ask if their child is unfortunately diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Many specialists will tell you: No! But if it can’t be cured, why should it be cured?  Here I also want to ask parents a question: “When people don’t have enough to eat, they just want to eat a full meal, but when they have enough to eat, why do they want to eat more meat? This brings us to the issue of quality of life, and it seems that everyone has the desire for a better life. But do we deny our children the right to pursue a higher quality of life, a better life? We don’t!  So the goal of cerebral palsy treatment is not to cure, but to improve the function and prognosis of the child and to obtain a higher quality of life. Many children with cerebral palsy are only physically disabled, their intelligence is not much worse than normal children, and after active rehabilitation they can significantly improve their physical functions and can receive normal education, and even children with slightly poor intelligence can significantly improve their cognitive level after enhanced education. It should be said that their pursuit of dreams is essentially no different from that of normal children, and all we have to do is to provide them with an opportunity and a platform. This is a responsibility we share as parents and medical rehabilitators.  Children are the continuation of their parents’ lives. Whether they are the sons of a big official or the sons of a few acres of land at home, they are the heart of their parents. For children with cerebral palsy, the love they receive from their parents is not half as much as their healthy siblings, but perhaps even more, I think.  It is this love that makes some parents devote all their money or even their family to cure cerebral palsy in a short period of time, but the improvement of the child’s condition often falls far short of expectation, and slowly their confidence collapses. This shows that we do not have the right knowledge about our child’s condition. We want to fight against cerebral palsy, but we do not know our enemy. Since cerebral palsy is a long-term disease, we naturally need to make long-term plans. Each family needs to rely on rehabilitation institutions to develop long-term rehabilitation and education programs according to their own economic conditions. In general, rehabilitation is the main focus before the age of 3, and education is the main focus after the age of 3. Ultimately, our goal is for them to gain the ability to live independently and enter society.  Everyone wants to realize their own value in life, and the road they have to take is destined to be more rugged, but who says that begging for food in a broken bowl on the flyover is their only way out? Our beloved parents and the majority of rehabilitation therapists are trying to break this predestination and give them a better life!