Sometime early age kids affected with spastic cerebral palsy don’t show much improvement even with good quality of cerebral palsy therapy. It happen because of persistent moderate to severe spasticity in a few groups of muscle. Then they need botulinum toxin. Botulinum toxin helps a lot in getting control over spasticity and its effect lasts for only 3-4 months. Effect can be prolonged with the good physiotherapy technique and judicious use of a brace. Now days, few literature has shown muscle weakness with repeated use of botulinum toxin so we now rarely use it. Now days in most of cases we use plaster. Still in some case we need it.
Ataxic Cerebral Palsy By Dr. J. K. Jain
Ataxic cerebral palsy occurs because of the lesion in the cerebellum. The child has a very shaky...