Can children with cerebral palsy be cured by surgery?

  Traditionally, the treatment for children with cerebral palsy around the world tends to be conservative, often taking rehabilitative training, movement therapy, etc., such as PT training, or motor work therapy, for limb movement dysfunction, and OT training, or fine activity training; ST training, or language training, for children with language dysfunction, and so on. Some of them also use medication, Chinese medicine, and so on, to name a few.  But what is the effect of these treatments? Clinical practice shows that these treatments are often ineffective. Many parents report that they can sometimes see results during the rehabilitation process, but when they stop, they rebound. Likewise, medications and Chinese medicine are not very effective. Since these methods are not effective, can children with cerebral palsy be cured by surgery?  Yes, at present, the medical community can take surgical intervention for all kinds of symptoms of cerebral palsy in children, which can achieve good improvement results. Especially for spastic cerebral palsy, which accounts for more than 70% of the cases, all kinds of limb movement disorders or postural abnormalities caused by high muscle tone can be treated by a minimally invasive neurosurgical procedure – peripheral nerve narrowing, which has a very good improvement effect. For example, cross-legged scissor gait, heel failure, foot valgus, knee flexion, finger supination deformity, etc. are symptoms of the lower extremities; and upper extremities, elbow flexion, forearm rotation, inward thumb clenching, fist clenching, arm inability to turn outward, etc. can be treated by this surgery.  In addition, carotid sympathetic nerve stripping can be a good treatment for tardive dyskinesia (involuntary movement), ataxia, mixed cerebral palsy with tardive dyskinesia and torsional spasm, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, salivation, speech disorders, and strabismus caused by extravertebral damage.