Is There any Treatment for Cerebral Palsy in China?

Do you have a child with cerebral palsy? Have you even learn all about cerebral palsy and the latest treatment and therapy, and ask doctor why he thinks your child has cerebral palsy. What cause cerebral palsy? Why dose your child has cerebral palsy? There are many possible answers to these questions, because there are many causes and reasons children can sustain brain damage. Cerebral palsy refers to any one of a number of neurological disorders that caused by an injury to the brain before, during, or shortly after birth. Cerebral palsy can permanently affect body movement and muscle coordination. Although cerebral palsy affects muscle movement, it is not caused by problems in the muscles or nerves; it is caused by abnormalities in parts of the brain that control muscle movements. In many cases, nobody knows what may have been done to prevent the injury or what caused the brain injury. A large number of factors which can injure the developing brain may cause cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy can not be cured at present, but effective treatment will improve child’s life and child’s capabilities. However, cerebral palsy does not always cause profound disabilities. While one child with severe cerebral palsy might be unable to walk, difficult speak, lifelong care. Traditional treatment includes physical and occupational therapy, speech therapy, relaxes muscle spasms, drugs to control seizures, and alleviate pain, and so on. Although, these treatments can help they improve their motor skills and ability to communicate with the world, the effective is not very well. Fortunately, stem cell transplantation treatment brought a hope for the patient with cerebral palsy. First of all, stem cells has infinite differentiation ability, stem cell has self replication ability. Secondly, stem cell has secretion function. Thirdly, stem cell has repairing function. Stem cells have these function means that stem cell have the advantages that other treatments don’t. Until 2013, our department has treated more than 6,500 patients, and we have got the official reply from the central government to apply the stem cells clinically. Moreover, in order to get the best treating effects, our department will arrange necessary Chinese therapies for you. This is different from other stem cell center.