Treatment of cerebral palsy in Ukraine
Children's cerebral palsy or short for cerebral palsy is a complex of certain pathologies of the brain, due to its unformed state to a certain stage of development or mechanical damage during labor and pregnancy.
Cerebral Palsy manifests itself in different ways: it can be a mental or motor disability. Symptomatology of the disease has a specific character: in some cases, it manifests itself immediately after birth, but often it occurs gradually and it is important to recognize it in a timely manner.
Cerebral Palsy is a disease that is not genetic, but the fact of heredity is present.
If for many years, children with cerebral palsy were sent for treatment to Germany and Israel, then today, medicine in Ukraine has stepped forward.
Treatment of cerebral palsy in Ukraine is possible today in a number of clinics and centers, private medical institutions, sanatoria, etc. Only in Ukraine, a medic from Truskavets by a unique method successfully restores the motor activity of patients with cerebral palsy. And this is not an isolated case of successful therapy.
Before initiating active therapy, it is necessary to identify the cause of the disease.
The main causes of cerebral palsy
The main reason for the formation of cerebral palsy is the complex effect on the brain of harmful factors.
- Hypoxia of an infant during pregnancy or after childbirth. Pathologies of mother's pregnancy directly affect the formation of the brain.
- Birth trauma or weak labor activity.
- Jaundice of the child on the first days of life.
- Chronic diseases in the mother, taking unwanted medications, obesity or suspected diabetes.
- Disrupted normal pregnancy course - toxicosis, gestosis, threats due to incompatibility.
- Complex, prolonged labor, premature birth.
It is the causes in the future that determine which area of the brain is affected, and what form of the disease develops.
Treatment of infantile cerebral palsy in clinics of Ukraine
It is important to understand that the treatment of cerebral palsy is for life, since a complete cure is impossible.
If earlier parents of children with actively progressive forms were looking for where to treat cerebral palsy in Ukraine, because the clinics could be counted on the fingers of one hand, today the situation radically changed.
Rehabilitation in cerebral palsy is a complex technique that includes correction of the speech, motor, communicative apparatus and intellect.
Treatment of children with cerebral palsy in Ukraine is carried out in many clinics and rehabilitation centers, good specialists are in Kiev, Truskavets, Lviv, Odessa, Dnipro, Zaporozhye. Before deciding on a clinic, you need to establish an accurate diagnosis of a small patient, and therefore it is better to undergo a comprehensive examination.
During the treatment of the disease, speech, intellect and communication skills are corrected in the centers of defectology, where professional psychologists, psychotherapists, defectologists and speech therapists work.
What results can you expect?
Treatment of infantile cerebral palsy in Ukraine is aimed at identifying the cause of its formation and eliminating the characteristic symptoms.
A competent system of treatment and training can give positive results after the first applications:
- medicinal products - to lower the tone in muscles and improve nutrition of nerve tissues;
- gymnastics and sanatorium procedures - gradually restore the motor activity and develop communication skills;
- massages - return a normal tone in the muscles, relieve pain;
- special simulators, armchairs, suits - to develop fine motor skills, to work out the whole group of muscles.
Only an integrated approach is able to maintain a normal lifestyle in people with a similar diagnosis.
Violetta YanyshevskaAuthor and medical editor
