Minimally invasive surgery for cerebral palsy

Cerebral palsy is a very common disease in normal times. Suffering from cerebral palsy will have a lifelong impact on children. Cerebral palsy also has a great impact on children's physical health. Patients with cerebral palsy usually need rehabilitation training. However, if they are properly conditioned, some patients with cerebral palsy can recover the ability to take care of themselves. There are many ways to treat cerebral palsy in daily life. Minimally invasive surgery is also a common one. Is minimally invasive surgery for cerebral palsy useful?

Is minimally invasive surgery useful for cerebral palsy?

It does have a certain effect, but it needs to be determined based on the patient's condition. Not all cerebral palsy patients are suitable for minimally invasive surgery. Currently in clinical practice, surgical methods can have good effects on spastic cerebral palsy, spastic cerebral palsy, and athetoid cerebral palsy, and can alleviate related symptoms to a great extent. The surgery is minimally invasive, with the skin incision only 2-3 cm. Microsurgery technology is introduced during the operation, and electromyography detection technology is applied to guide the operation with objective data, making the operation more precise and the effect better.

Some parents do not understand cerebral palsy and think that softness, paralysis and cramps are caused by calcium deficiency. In fact, cerebral palsy refers to a non-progressive central movement disorder caused by various reasons one month after birth. Cerebral palsy patients often have sensory, cognitive, communication, behavioral disorders and secondary skeletal and muscular abnormalities, and may have epileptic seizures. Although cerebral palsy is not fatal, if a family has a patient with cerebral palsy, it is enough to drag down the family. The harm of cerebral palsy is self-evident.

If cerebral palsy is not treated in time, it may cause serious sequelae:

1. Cerebral palsy patients cannot look directly at objects in terms of vision. Instead, they squint to one side when looking at things, which affects the patients' ability to take care of themselves. Their bones and joints become deformed, and their limbs have poor coordination, making them unable to move according to their own wishes.

2. The hearing damage affects cerebral palsy patients, who may suffer from poor hearing, and in severe cases may even become deaf. They also have emotional problems, the highest rate of concurrent mental retardation, hyperactivity, and emotional instability.

3. The degree of hearing difficulty varies from high-pitched to low-pitched. About 20% of children with cerebral palsy have eye problems, mainly eye coordination disorders such as esotropia and exotropia.

4. Symptoms include slow reaction or no reaction at all, poor receptive awareness when playing with children, inaccurate pronunciation, incoherent speech, inability to correctly express one's own meaning, accompanied by drooling. In terms of language disorders, patients have poor speaking ability or are unable to express themselves.

Cerebral palsy is caused by substantial brain damage. Only when the damaged brain tissue reaches an activated state, Director Zeng Qingcai said that in the process of treating cerebral palsy, there will often be a treatment paralysis stage. The child's response is likely to be worse than when he first entered the hospital. Some parents lose their patience and give up treatment, thinking that the child's condition will get worse. In fact, this temporary paralysis is often a sign that the treatment climax is approaching. Once this stage is passed, the treatment effect will become obvious. Therefore, parents should be mentally prepared and not give up halfway.