What is Cerebral Palsy?
Cerebral palsy is a group of neuromotor problems characterized by a lack of efficiency in ambulation, vision, speech, hearing, immunity, epilepsy, feeding & growth, etc. It is the most common cause of severe physical disability in children. It occurs because of any “insult to the brain” between foetal life and upto 2 years from birth.
Problems like severe jaundice, intrauterine infection, trauma, genetic problems, hypoxia, and many unknown causes can cause insult to the immature brain at an early age. Low weight & premature babies are more prone to cerebral palsy.
These children cannot achieve “developmental milestones” as other growing children. These children can be identified at an early age by identification of the above-mentioned history, delayed milestones, delayed social smile, abnormal reflexes, and abnormal tone like increase or decrease in tone, abnormal movement, abnormal growth pattern, and delay in ambulation.
Brain insult is static but their disabilities can increase, decrease, or remain as such depending upon environment and treatment intervention. With early intervention by the multimodal therapeutic approach, more than 80% of children can have a good quality of life.
These children need medical care from a team of medical & rehab specialists, including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, special educators, orthopedic surgeons, neurologists, pediatricians, etc.
Cerebral palsy can’t be cured but we can decrease the disability to an extent that those affected can be integrated into mainstream schooling & society. They can have a professional degree, can have a job, marry, and live a long life.
Cerebral Palsy in Nigeria
We got many queries from parents for their children affected by cerebral palsy in Nigeria, West Africa. Not only Nigeria, but queries also come from different regions of Africa, for example, Sudan, Kenya, Zambia, Mali, Libya, Namibia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Botswana, and other regions.
We respond to their queries according to the unique problems of each child affected by cerebral palsy and other physical disability problems.
We communicate through email or calls to parents and understand the problems of children and provide better solutions for cerebral palsy in Nigeria and other regions. There are many families from Africa also came to India at Trishla Foundation for proper cerebral palsy treatment.
Our dedication towards cerebral palsy treatment helped many African families to make their children independent and perform their daily tasks without the help of others. These successful treatments add new credit to our successful cerebral palsy case studies.
An African family from Ghana came to India at Trishla Foundation for CP treatment and was supported by honorable minister Sushma Swaraj for proper treatment with their blessing. The minister helped the Ghana family and extended the visa for 6 months as per the suggestion of Dr. Jitendra Kumar Jain, the cerebral palsy specialist and orthopedic surgeon in India.
A family from Malawi East Africa also came to India for their disabled girl and she can stand, walk, and speak. But after treatment for a few days parents of the girl were surprised when they saw the girl start walking without the help of a walker in front of hundreds of people and even called her parents “mama” and “papa”.
