In India, 2.68 cr persons are ‘differently abled’, out of which 2.21% live in rural areas, where treatment isn’t given properly and is often delayed. Also, there are misconceptions about diseases by following wrong treatment methods such as massage, incineration, herbs, passive muscular stretches or exercises with gymnasium.
In our country, most of the treatment is delayed by 3 to 6 years, i.e. the treatment that should be done today is started after 3 to 6 years. Hence, treatment becomes difficult and desired results are not achieved.
Nowadays, newborn babies are suffering from various diseases like Respiratory syncytial virus, skin infection, Kawasaki Disease and Cerebral Palsy. CP is a neurological disorder, which appears in early childhood and affects the body’s movements by disrupting the brain control over movement.
Age plays a key role in treating any CP affected child, because overcoming developmental disabilities can be done by learning new things and challenging them. Cerebral Palsy is an incurable disease, but there are corrective surgeries, various therapies and assistive devices which can help them overcome their disabilities and make it easier for adapting new activities of daily living.
There are situations which are easier to deal with, wherein a child has only one problem of mobility, but it becomes difficult if a child has multiple problems like speaking, slow mind capacity. That is why there are various methods available for treating and handling the future issues:-
- First three years old
- Four and five years old
- Six to twelve years old
- First to three years old- Providing diagnosis for newborns or infants for Cerebral Palsy is difficult to identify due to its premature characteristics for instance, spastic cerebral palsy. There are a number of ways to deal with it, for example, till one year, Brain Tonic should be provided to handle the problem. After one year, much money shouldn’t be wasted for the same treatment because this will be a deceiving tactic for them by keeping in false hopes. Physical and medical therapeutic, acupuncture and acupressure treatments are also available. If there is no desirable improvement in children during 4 to 8 weeks or if one or two disorders improve and other present disorders are also causing damage, then their treatment should also be started. At the age of 2 to 3 years, children should start focusing on their studies for the future.
- 4 and 5 years old– Spastic Cerebral Palsy children face difficulty in working with hands and feet due to connectivity. That is where medical exercise will bring better outcome at this age. By removing them, children start to see complete improvement. But it also mainly depends on the condition of the child. During the treatment, External reconditioning equipment such as calipers, knee guards, dynamic splints, crutches, etc.
- 6 to 12 twelve years-Previous measures’ results come at the age from 6 to 12 years old. During this age, the training of daily activities and moving from one place to another is carried out through some treatments such as the use of external supporting devices and medical exercises. Due to having more confidence, all activities start reaching their maximum limits. From the point of view of physical activity also play an important role in determining its employment-related habilitation. During the treatment of side effects, the potential is corrected by neurosurgical operation and contraction or bone site dislocation by muscle skeletal surgery (orthopedic operation).
Due to late treatment, most of the experts are busy in the treatment of muscle degeneration etc. that is why there is less chance to get treatments that produce strength, balance, and coordination. Many reasons such as affection, ignorance, lack of awareness, lack of experts etc. are also responsible for not getting the right treatment at the right time.
By Senior Dr. Amar Singh Chundawat, Chief Surgeon at Narayan Seva Sansthan
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