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People tend to think of cerebral palsy is something that affects children. Karen is helping us to remember that children with cerebral palsy grow up and become adults and it’s very important that adults with cerebral palsy work hard to maintain their fitness and their flexibility because that kind of problems that occurred to all of us as we get older such as muscle tightening off, getting weaker and these kinds of things can affect individual with cerebral palsy more.
Cerebral palsy is an injury to the brain that happened sometime around a person’s birth. It can be cause by bleeding in the brain which is the most common cause in a premature child. It can be caused by lack of oxygen into the brain which is something goes wrong during the birth process. It can be cause by a null formation in the brain or some other problem within the brain that affects the person’s movement among other things.
Generally the other important thing about cerebral palsy is that it doesn’t get worst which means that the brain doesn’t get worst. However, as time goes by because of growth and other factors, the movement problems can get worst, the arms and legs that are often tight in cerebral palsy can get tighter if people don’t get to therapy, don’t do treatment for their children and other things to help keep the arms and legs loose.
Karen for example has a really mild form of cerebral palsy. You can tell that by watching how she moves around in the video. When someone practices movement and especially if they are involved in an activity that focuses on how they move that can be very helpful. It may not fix that part of the brain that was injured but it can lead to other parts of the brain picking up the function and the person accommodating and figuring out how to do those movements in different ways, so that they can perform the function what those movements are supposed to do.
Karen is involved with yoga, involved with dance, those kinds of the activities where a person learns the movement and practices it can actually make some changes within the brain that will help the person with their movement patterns and help them to function better. I think that Karen’s mother was very wise to send her to the dance program. This is the kind of thing they were encouraging for families with cerebral palsy now. There is a movement in the way we think about treatment of cerebral palsy that is looking less toward a lot of physical therapy that’s based on neuralgic mechanisms and more towards just being active, just participating in the kind of things that a lot of people participate in but especially those kind of things that help a person with mastering movement, dance, martial arts, Karen mentions yoga, we think all of these kind of things can be very good for individuals with cerebral palsy.
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