20 Nov CP Comes with Other Issues
Children who suffer with cerebral palsy oftentimes suffer with other difficulties, as well. The reason for this is that cerebral palsy is the result of brain injuries during birth. Oftentimes, these brain injuries cause difficulty beyond what cerebral palsy itself causes.
The brain injury that causes cerebral palsy affects the area of the brain that allows you to control your muscles and that provides motor function. Oftentimes, a child who suffers a cerebral palsy inducing brain injury also suffers injuries to the brain that affect other abilities. For example, approximately half of the people with cerebral palsy injuries also have some cognitive impairment. This doesn't mean that they are severely impaired, necessarily. In fact, some people with cerebral palsy end up to go on and get advanced degrees, but they may have to work much harder than other people to achieve such goals.
Everyday Issues
Among the issues that people with cerebral palsy often deal with our problems speaking, problems hearing and problems swallowing. These oftentimes accompany CP disorders. In some cases, a person may have such severe swallowing disorders that they have to be fed through a tube for their entire life. In other cases, there are difficulties that are harder to assess.
Even though many people with cerebral palsy suffer some level of mental impairment, not all of them do. At the same time, people who have their full mental capacity may have extremely diminished motor capacity. This may result in them being assessed as having a much greater degree of mental impairment than is actually the case. You can imagine how frustrating this would be for the sufferer. Their mind works fine, but their body does not.
Making a Diagnosis
Diagnosing cerebral palsy, assessing what type of cerebral palsy is involved and assessing the extent of the brain damage can be a very difficult and long-term process. After a child is given a firm diagnosis of cerebral palsy, there will be a medical investigation to determine how the child came to be affected by this condition. There are cases where physician negligence played a major part in the child coming to suffer these injuries. No matter how extensive those injuries are, a child with cerebral palsy and their family may have an opportunity to seek compensation for those injuries via a lawsuit. This compensation can provide enough money to pay for top-notch treatment and care that can help with whatever symptoms are present.
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