What Is Cerebral Palsy

What is cerebral palsy?

CP is a neurological disorder that appears in early childhood, it affects body movement and limits muscle coordination. This disorder comes from dysfuctionality in some parts of the brain that controls muscle movements, depending what part of the brain is affected the movement problems vary. Most of the people with cerebral palsy are born with it and can be caused by many different events like premature born, oxygen problems during the development, brain injury and malformation.  Although it may be detected months or years after being born, the sign of cerebral palsy are mostly notable when the baby is 3 years old because it is when movement should be completely developed and kid start moving by their own. The most common types of cerebral palsy are ataxia; muscle coordination when performing voluntary movements, spastic; stiff of tight muscles and exaggerated reflexes.

Types of Cerebral Palsy: Spastic,  Athetoid, Ataxic  

Types of muscle tone: Hyper tonus, Hypotonic, Dystonia

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Rehab therapy

Cerebral Palsy can’t be cured, but the right treatment can improve child’s capabilities, movement and independence. Early treatment gives a better chance of overcoming development disabilities of learning new ways of accomplish tasks that challenge them. The treatments include physical, oral and intellectual therapy, also medicine control, and surgery to correct abnormalities of release tight muscles. 

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Peto

It’s an integral, rehab system intense and active, with a multidimensional focus based in neuroplasticity. Peto has de characteristic of being a physical, social, intellectual and emotional learning. It is not to gain back the movement disability but to guide the development of it throughout movement exercises. The main object of this therapy is to gain independency in personality stimulating all their capacities and giving them the right tools to accomplish them. It is based on the neural properties and the connection between them and movement and the modification of the mechanism of communication with other cells to supply the deficiencies. Another characteristic is to accomplish socialization, motivation, competition, security and effort among a group of kids guided and helped by the conductors.