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Cerebral Palsy

Causes, Symptoms & Ayurvedic Management

What is Cerebral Palsy?

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive neuromuscular disorder of cerebral (brain) origin. It occurs due to damage to the developing brain, affecting movement, posture, muscle tone, and coordination. Globally, 2–3% of children are affected by cerebral palsy, and crores of people are living with this condition, often facing lifelong physical limitations.

Although cerebral palsy does not worsen over time, its impact on daily life can be profound, requiring long-term care, rehabilitation, and emotional support for both patients and their families.

Functional Ability in Cerebral Palsy

The physical abilities of children with cerebral palsy vary widely:

  • 50% can walk without assistance
  • 30% can walk with calipers or external support
  • 20% are unable to walk even with support and may be confined to bed
  • Due to the absence of a definitive cure in modern medicine, many patients are forced to live with disability, making cerebral palsy a major medical, social, and emotional challenge.

Causes of Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy usually occurs due to brain trauma or damage during early development. Common causes include:

  • Birth trauma
  • Birth anoxia (lack of oxygen to the brain)
  • Hypoxic conditions, leading to degenerative changes in brain tissue
  • Infections
  • Low blood glucose levels (hypoglycemia)
  • Hyperbilirubinemia (bilirubin encephalopathy)
  • Other metabolic disorders

Important: Cerebral palsy is not a familial or hereditary disease.

 

Clinical Variations and Types of Cerebral Palsy

The symptoms depend on the site and severity of brain damage. Motor disorders arise due to abnormal brain development and metabolic disturbances.

Spastic Cerebral Palsy (≈65%)

Caused by involvement of the motor cortex and pyramidal system:

  • Increased muscle tone (spasticity)
  • Abnormal reflexes
  • Hyperexcitability and hyperactivity
  • Firm grasp reflex
  • Adductor muscle spasm, causing scissoring of lower limbs
  • Quadriplegia or diplegia (lower limbs more affected)

Pseudobulbar palsy features:

  • Difficulty in swallowing
  • Excessive drooling
  • Brisk tendon reflexes
  • Positive Babinski response

Extrapyramidal Cerebral Palsy

Often associated with bilirubin encephalopathy:

  • Athetosis
  • Choreiform movements
  • Tremors and rigidity
  • Involvement of arms, legs, neck, and trunk

Cerebellar Cerebral Palsy

Seen in nearly 50% of cases:

  • Hypotonia
  • Hyporeflexia
  • Ataxia
  • Intention tremors

  • Nystagmus (rare)

Mixed Type Cerebral Palsy

Involves multiple systems with additional complications:

Eye-related issues

  • Strabismus
  • Gaze paralysis
  • Cataracts
  • Coloboma
  • Retrolental fibroplasia
  • Refractive and perceptual errors

Ear-related issues

  • Partial or complete hearing loss
  • Auditory defects, often due to rubella-related brain damage

Speech and cognition

  • Aphasia
  • Dysarthria
  • Dyslalia
  • Dyskinetic speech
  • Scissoring gait
  • Often associated with reduced intelligence levels

Limitations of Modern Medical Treatment

Modern medical science does not offer a curative treatment for cerebral palsy. Current management is largely supportive and includes:

  1. Symptomatic treatment for scissoring
  2. Tranquilizers for behavioral issues
  3. Muscle relaxants
  4. Physiotherapy, massage, exercises, hydrotherapy
  5. Occupational therapy, speech therapy, and rehabilitation

Despite these measures, results are often limited, slow, and require lifelong intervention.

Marma Therapy: A Ray of Hope for Cerebral Palsy

In such challenging circumstances, Marma Therapy emerges as a powerful and holistic alternative. It is a non-surgical, non-medicinal therapy that has shown remarkable and lasting results in cerebral palsy cases.

How Marma Therapy Helps

  • Selected, diagnosed cases of cerebral palsy undergo systematic stimulation of specific marma points
  • Spasticity reduces within a few sessions
  • Many impaired ambulatory children regain the ability to walk
  • Scissoring of legs decreases
  • Improvement in drooling, rigidity, and associated neurological symptoms
  • Rapid symptom regression brings hope and confidence to patients and families

At Marma & Yog Vigyaan Center, Haridwar, patients suffering from Cerebral palsy receive highly specialized care through authentic Marma Therapy, guided personally by Dr. Sunil Joshi, a renowned Marma expert with over 40 years of experience.

Cerebral palsy is a life-altering neurological condition with no definitive cure in modern medicine. However, Marma Therapy has proven to be a boon, offering instant, visible, and lasting improvements in mobility, muscle tone, and overall function.

For families seeking natural, holistic, and effective intervention for cerebral palsy, Marma Therapy provides renewed hope, dignity, and a better quality of life—even in conditions once considered untreatable.

If you or your loved one is seeking a safe, effective, and holistic approach to spinal recovery, contact Marma & Yog Vigyaan Center today and begin your healing journey.

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