Key role of the family .. Know the causes and symptoms of cerebral palsy children

Imad Murad-Doha

Early detection of cerebral palsy is the responsibility of the family during the first three years of a child's life, and the earlier the detection, the greater the chances of recovery or control of the disease due to the many factors that help the doctor to provide treatments that stimulate the infected cells.

Cerebral palsy is a disorder that affects the strength of muscles, and the ability to move in harmony and harmony.Cerebral palsy is usually caused by damage to the brain before, after or during the birth of a child, or during the first three years of life.

Damage to the brain may also lead to other health problems, including vision, hearing, speech and learning disabilities.

Types of cerebral palsy vary depending on the period in which a child has been infected from birth in the womb to three years, but the most common types of this disease is spastic cerebral palsy, which causes stiffness and difficulties in movement, and cerebral palsy that leads to involuntary movements uncontrollable The latter type is ataxic cerebral palsy, which causes a disturbance in equilibrium and depth of perception.

In Qatar, more than 1,000 children with cerebral palsy receive treatment at Hamad Medical Corporation Hospitals. The Foundation receives annually between 60 and 80 new cases of the disease, and carries out care programs for patients with cerebral palsy at the Qatar Rehabilitation Center, which corresponds to the needs of the patient through Rehabilitation Clinics.

Hamad Medical Corporation organized a celebration on the occasion of World Cerebral Palsy Day.

A general term for various diseases
The specialist in the treatment of neurological rehabilitation of children in Hamad Medical Corporation Murad Abdul Hafeez Salem, in an interview with Aljazeera Net, that cerebral palsy is the biggest cause of motor disabilities in children, pointing out the lack of similarities between patients and another; cerebral palsy is a general term for a group of diseases that affect different parts From the brain, the brain cells are divided into lobes, and each part has certain tasks, and the injury is determined by the affected area.

Salem gave many tips for the mother to identify the child infected since the beginning of pregnancy, if the mother noticed that the movement of the child is small compared to the previous pregnancy Aflina attention to this matter, and tell her doctor follow-up, and after birth also follow-up child and movement and the extent of development and growth, and in the case of discovery that His movement is little or his development is weak;

He spoke about the discovery of about 80 cases of cerebral palsy annually in Qatar, stressing the need to change the culture of society, and not to consider the disabled child as not useful in society, because it means dispensing a large part of Society has great energies through which it can serve its community.

Salim adds that although the exact causes of cerebral palsy are not known, and the condition is associated with unusual development or damage to the child's brain during development, there are many factors that increase the risk of cerebral palsy, such as maternal health during pregnancy, child illness and complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Congenital, genetic or caused by inflammation or hypoxia.

Salem pointed out that there is coordination between Hamad Medical Corporation and schools inside the country, where the number of schools that have sections to rehabilitate children with any kind of disability to about 50% of the number of schools, with a plan to increase the number to 80% before 2022.