Most Cerebral Palsy sufferers do not experience medical problems associated with Cerebral Palsy. However, there are some disorders that cannot be eliminated. Some of them are considered to be serious, such as impairment of intellectual growth, poor vision, motor function of the brain growth, and hearing and attentiveness to the outside world.
These medical disorders are characterized below:
MENTAL IMPAIRMENT
According to statistics, about one-third of the Cerebral Palsy patients suffer some form
of mental impairment, either severe or moderate. The rest two-thirds is mentally stable. The mental impairment is more widespread among people who have spastic quadriplegia. This condition means the problem with the movement of feet and legs.
SEIZURES OR EPILEPSY
About half of the Cerebral Palsy population suffers from seizures or epilepsy. A seizure occurs when the usual pattern of electricity in the brain is disturbed. The uncontrolled electricity outburst in the brain taking place without a trigger, such as fever, is called epilepsy. Cerebral Palsy sufferers, who experience seizures, may have the disruption of electricity spread through the whole brain. This may result in some other symptoms, which would act on other areas of the body. This is similar to “Tonic Seizures”. The seizure may also occur in a specific part of the brain and result in specific symptoms. This is the equivalent to “Partial Seizures”. Both tonic and partial seizures are characterized in brief below.
Tonic Seizures: When a tonic seizure occurs, the person cries out and afterwards loses his or her conscience. This is followed by jerking of both hands and legs and losing of bladder control.
Partial Seizures: There are two different kinds of partial seizures: simple and complex.
In simple partial seizures the symptoms are muscle twitches, chewing movements, tingling and lack of feeling. In complex partial seizures the indications are weakened consciences, hallucinations and unsteady walk.
Growth problems: The syndrome known as failure to thrive is common among children with Cerebral Palsy. These indications could be both moderate and severe. The term is a common phrase used by physicians for children who have growth failure. This disorder persists in children who are nourished properly and regularly. This condition in infants will be indicated by low weight. Irregular shortness will be noticed among young children, and in teenagers the symptoms would be a combo of abnormal shortness and deficiency of sexual development.
IMPAIRED VISION OR HEARING
According to statistics, lots of children with Cerebral Palsy have strabismus; this means improper eyes’ alignment. It occurs due to the difference in the eye muscles. In adults the symptoms result in double vision. In children, the signal from the misaligned eye is ignored by the second eye.
