Can pediatric spastic cerebral palsy be completely cured?

In recent years, the occurrence of pediatric spastic cerebral palsy has been on the rise, seriously affecting the normal development of many children. Therefore, in order to restore the health of children as soon as possible, the rehabilitation of spastic cerebral palsy is a task that can not be delayed. However, in the face of treatment, many parents have this question: can pediatric spastic cerebral palsy be completely cured? Cerebral palsy cannot be completely cured. The initial damage to the newborn’s brain can be healed to some extent, and the residual defects will be preserved for life. The goal of treatment for cerebral palsy is to increase the patient’s skills and decrease his or her deficits as much as possible, focusing on increasing emotional stability, physical independence, and progress in the ability to recognize, speak, or talk to each other, in an effort to create individuals who can be independent in socio-economic life. Clinical studies have found that low birth weight babies and asphyxiated individuals are generally prone to this type of cerebral palsy, which manifests itself as abnormal spasticity of the limbs, with joint contractures and deformities occurring as the child grows, and the legs are in a crossed position as the child rises and walks. The foot can be seen as pointed foot, inward and outward turning of the pointed foot, flexion contracture of the knee joint, flexion, inward contraction and internal rotation of the tendon joints, etc. The upper limbs can show abnormal limb positions such as palmar flexion of the hand joints, inward contraction of the thumbs, flexion of the finger joints, forward rotation of the forearms and flexion of the elbows, etc., and the limbs may be even contracted and deformed. Cerebral palsy is a non-progressive brain damage during the neurodevelopmental period from before birth to 1 month after birth, also known as static encephalopathy. Therefore, the brain damage in children with cerebral palsy is static, but the resulting neurological deficits are not fixed forever. And it is well known that once the nerve cells in the central part of the brain die, they are wiped out forever and the nerve cells cannot divide and proliferate again after birth. If cerebral palsy is not properly treated at an early stage, abnormal postures and movement patterns become fixed. Meanwhile, secondary damage such as tendon contractures, bone and joint deformities are also caused by the movement disorders, and the failure to treat the associated deficits in a timely manner exacerbates mental retardation (intellectual disability). These factors make it more difficult for children to learn new correct postures and movement patterns. However, infants and young children, especially babies, have a high degree of brain tissue plasticity and strong compensatory capacity, and if appropriate rehabilitation measures are taken, the best results can be achieved, which is related to the compensatory performance of the central nervous system.