Treating Cerebral Palsy with Massage Therapy
Cerebral Palsy is a condition that affects muscle control and movement.
The word cerebral means relating to the brain, and palsy refers to a complete or partial loss of the ability to move a body part. So cerebral palsy means loss of ability to move a part of the body because of a problem with the brain. It is usually caused by an injury to the brain before, during or (more rarely) after birth. The main causes of cerebral palsy include lack of oxygen to the brain, an infection early on in pregnancy, abnormal brain development, and, very rarely, trauma to the brain in early infancy.
There are four classifications of the condition; spastic, athetoid, ataxic and mixed, with spastic cerebral palsy accounting for 70% of all people with the condition.
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