| Cerebral palsy is a condition identified by an impairment | | | | cure for cerebral palsy. Therefore, most medical |
| of the body's power to manage motion and balance. It | | | | establishments express cerebral palsy as a condition |
| stems from improper development of or injury to the | | | | as opposed to disease. Even though the brain damage |
| specialist motor-based areas of the brain, which are | | | | that causes cerebral palsy can't be cured, the day to |
| responsible for calculating motion. In particular situations, | | | | day difficulties associated with CP can usually be |
| it is also connected to other examples of brain injury, | | | | improved via therapy, medication or, in some instances, |
| such as fits, learning difficulty, behavioral difficulties, | | | | surgical procedures. |
| deafness, or eyesight problems. | | | | The most clearly avoidable instances of cerebral palsy |
| Around 500,000 people in the United States have been | | | | are those that are the result of medical errors. Poor |
| diagnosed as having CP. Nearly 5,000 children, the vast | | | | care during pre-natal care, labor and delivery, or the |
| number of whom are babies or young children, are | | | | newborn phase, that can inflict brain damage leading to |
| diagnosed with cerebral palsy every year. The levels | | | | the condition, and which can and should be avoided. |
| of cerebral palsy (number of cases diagnosed as a | | | | Not all situations of CP have an exclusive cause. For |
| ratio of the total population) has stayed around the | | | | these such cases, there is on-going investigation trying |
| same level over the past 30 years. This should not be | | | | to identify all of the prospective reasons for the |
| considered as evidence that, in spite of all of the | | | | condition, and to create strategies to diminish risk |
| advances during that time in the area of improved | | | | possibilities. Common preventive ways presently |
| access to prenatal care, better measurement of fetal | | | | researched include Rh testing and inoculation where |
| health through the use of fetal heart rate monitoring, | | | | necessary, punctual identification and management of |
| fetal acid-base measurement, and biophysical profile | | | | bacterial infection of the maternal reproductive tracts, |
| measurement, there is little that the medical profession | | | | removing unwarranted exposure to X-rays and |
| can do to prevent cerebral palsy. Experience and | | | | selected drugs during pregnancy, understanding |
| knowledge tell us that this can't be factual. Rather, the | | | | regarding damaging effects of cigarettes, and alcohol |
| similar levels of cerebral palsy is a direct consequence | | | | use in the course of pregnancy, better treatment of |
| of constantly increasing survival rates for critically | | | | diabetes, nutritional shortfalls and anemia, therapy of |
| premature or otherwise weak babies who, lacking | | | | newborn jaundice via physical identification in the |
| benefit of contemporary improvements in prenatal | | | | nursery, improved access to basic prenatal care, and |
| intensive care, would not have lived further than the | | | | recognized procedures for structuring pediatric |
| newborn stage. | | | | resuscitation teams in the delivery room when a |
| The brain injury that causes this condition stays | | | | difficult birth is expected. |
| everlasting from the point in time of injury. There is no | | | | |