Types And Reasons Of Cerebral Palsy

The cerebral palsy is causes because of disorder of the brain. In the USA about 2-3 children per 1000 have been suffering from cerebral palsy. In the second world it is a paralysis of brain. In the infant stage or pregnancy period some part of the brain get damage so after the birth the children behave like abnormal child. It does not control moving the muscles and movement so not able to perform the day-to-day work.

• There are two types of cerebral palsy, one is spastic and another is dyskinetic. In spastic palsy, the muscles of the person get stiff and movements are awkward. In this types of cerebral palsy mainly both legs or one side of the body or entire body gets affected.

• In dyskinetic types cerebral palsy it effect on the movements. In athetoid the person has uncontrolled movements that are dull and twisting. In athetoid it affects any part of the body like mouth, tongue and face can affect on balance and coordination. In Ataxic type cerebral palsy, it affects balance and coordination. Some time common symptoms of spastic and athetoid have also seen.

• The injury in the brain can occur in pregnancy time when the brain start get developing in the birth when child passes through birth canal. Till date the proper reason of damage of brain is not known but many people believe the damage is because of inadequate oxygen that causes cerebral palsy.

• It is believe that nearly 10 percent of cases of cerebral palsy due at the birth and 70-80 percent of cases of cerebral palsy before birth.

• Sometimes cerebral palsy occurs after the birth of the child.

Normally the cerebral palsy causes because of prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal reasons.