Any disease should be treated promptly after detection, especially cerebral palsy. If a child with cerebral palsy is younger than 6 months old (especially within 3 months), he or she has a good chance to recover if treated promptly at this time. Many people do not know much about cerebral palsy and cannot diagnose and treat it in time when symptoms appear, thus missing the best opportunity for treatment, which leads to low living and social skills of the child and brings disaster to the family. So, what are the common misconceptions about cerebral palsy diagnosis and treatment? Myths of cerebral palsy treatment 1. When parents of preterm children see that their children’s motor development such as rolling over, lying down, sitting, standing and walking are behind other normal children of the same age, they often simply think that it is caused by prematurity and that the child will recover slowly with natural growth and development, and often adopt a “wait and see” attitude. When the child shows early symptoms of cerebral palsy, such as head tilted back, hard limbs (increased muscle tone), easy to be frightened, abnormal crying, and difficulty in breastfeeding, parents often think that the child is “hard, strong, timid, and troublesome” due to lack of professional knowledge, or simply think that the child is young and weak, is it lacking calcium? Is the child suffering from a cold? Is it a cold? Is it poor digestion? Is the child infected with other diseases? Some children with cerebral palsy have good intellectual response in the early stage, so parents think that cerebral palsy is a silly child, and if the child’s eyes respond well, they say the child is not cerebral palsy, in fact, cerebral palsy is mainly manifested as head control, sitting, standing, walking and other motor movement disorders. 4. Once the doctor diagnoses cerebral palsy, parents often take the attitude of blindly seeking medical help, hoping to relieve the child’s motor malfunction through conventional “injections and medication”. After some children are clearly diagnosed with cerebral palsy, parents cannot face the reality and mistakenly believe that cerebral palsy is a congenital disease and incurable, so they give up the treatment; or after short-term treatment, they cannot insist on rehabilitation, resulting in the child not getting the maximum recovery. In fact, cerebral palsy can be cured if detected and treated early. Some parents of children with cerebral palsy simply hope for non-traumatic treatments such as functional training and orthopedic devices; some medical personnel emphasize that motor training can replace everything; some doctors let all children with cerebral palsy do single treatments such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy regardless of the reason; other doctors over-exaggerate the “effectiveness” of surgery. Some doctors over-exaggerate the “effectiveness” of surgery, and parents pin their children’s hope for “cure” on surgery, while neglecting post-operative rehabilitation, resulting in some children’s functional improvement or “relapse”. 7. When parents find that their children have abnormal posture in sports, they often think that their children have problems with their bones and muscles, and that they are missing something. And missed the time to consult the doctor. 8.They are in a hurry in treatment and cannot insist on long-term rehabilitation. Many parents find that their child has cerebral palsy and keep increasing the amount of rehabilitation training. This is incorrect, as this will lead to overworking the child and low immune function, thus increasing the incidence of comorbidities. Because cerebral palsy is caused by substantial brain damage, normal physiological functions can only be restored when the damaged brain tissue reaches an activated state, therefore, cerebral palsy treatment is valuable in persistence. Get out of the misunderstanding of cerebral palsy treatment! The above is our summary of the misunderstanding of cerebral palsy treatment. We hope you can pay attention to it and prevent the heavy burden to the family due to the misdiagnosis and mistreatment of cerebral palsy. Finally, we wish your child a speedy recovery!