Spastic Cerebral Palsy Treatment in China

Spastic cerebral palsy is a permanent brain disorder that affects parts of the brain that control muscle tension, especially in the legs. Usually, information from the muscles goes to the brain, which then sends back instructions telling the muscles to contract. Spasticity (too much muscle tension) is thought to occur because too much information is sent from the muscles to the brain. At present, because cerebral palsy can't be cured completely, treatment is an ongoing process to manage the disease's effects and improve your child's quality of life. However, spastic cerebral palsy has seriously affected the children physical and mental development, it will affect their education、career and social in the future if it not treat immediately. Spastic cerebral palsy patients self control ability is very poor, serious patients don't catch something with hands, and their feet won't walk, some even won't turn over, sitting up, and can’t chewing and swallowing in normally condition; Language difficulties, pronunciation is not clear or such as stuttering symptom; All kinds of abnormal posture, poor of gesture stability. Fortunately, Stem cell treatment has the most obvious effects on relieving patient’s abnormal muscle tension. On one hand, stem cell has self replication ability, this means it will provide enough cells for the body’s common need. On the other hand, stem cell has directional differentiation ability. This means stem cells can differentiate new cells to replace the damaged or dead cells to work. Moreover, stem cells can secrete cell growth factor, which can supply nutrition for damaged cells or activate endogenous silent cells to work normally. Stem cells also can repair the damaged tissues and recovery their functions to maintain the normal mechanism of the human body. The stem cell treatment began from February of 2005 in China Cell Center. The effects of stem cell treatment on cerebral palsy are related to damage degree, cerebral palsy type, and children’s age and so on. In types of cerebral palsy, stem cell treatment has best effects on spastic cerebral palsy; the efficiency rate can be higher than 87%. After treatment, language became clearer, and the sleeping quality and appetite became better, children can sit longer time, and their hands became more flexible. Spastic cerebral palsy is the most common type of cerebral and according to our clinical experience and statistics, spastic cerebral palsy patients should give priority to stem cell treatment.