About cerebral palsy

Definition of cerebral palsy
Definition of Cerebral Palsy The syndrome is caused by non-progressive brain damage occurring before birth or within 1 month after birth. The damage is to the brains motor control c...

Causes of cerebral palsy
Causes of Cerebral Palsy Why does your child have cerebral palsy? The simplest answer to this question is because your child has brain damage.This leads naturally into the second qu...

Cerebral palsy diagnosis
Cerebral Palsy Diagnosis How is the diagnosis of cerebral palsy made? When an infant or child has brain damage, a variety of symptoms can lead doctors and parents to suspect that so...

Cerebral palsy statistics
Cerebral Palsy Statistics Because cerebral palsy influences the way children develop, it is known as a developmental disability. In the United States today, more people have cerebra...

Definition of cerebral palsy
Definition of Cerebral Palsy The syndrome is caused by non-progressive brain damage occurring before birth or within 1 month after birth. The damage is to the brains motor control c...

History of cerebral palsy in children
History of Cerebral Palsy in Children Cerebral palsy is not a new disorder.There have probably been children with cerebral palsy as long as there have been children. But the medical...

Types of cerebral palsy
Types of Cerebral Palsy Cerebral palsy is a broad term that encompasses many different disorders of movement and posture. To describe particular types of movement disorders covered ...

Cerebral Palsy Statistics

Because cerebral palsy influences the way children develop, it is known as a developmental disability. In the United States today, more people have cerebral palsy than any other developmental disability, including Down syndrome, epilepsy, and autism. Nearly two children out of every thousand born in this country have some type of cerebral palsy. Studies have shown that at least 5,000 infants and toddlers and 1,200–1,500 preschoolers are diagnosed with cerebral palsy each year. In all, approximately 500,000 people in this country have some degree of cerebral palsy. There is not an American system for monitoring cerebral palsy's occurrence. Therefore it is not known whether the incidence of cerebral palsy is increasing, declining, or staying the same. However, studies have shown that the use of the electronic fetal heart rate monitor during labor and delivery has not decreased the rate of cerebral palsy, primarily because of the mistakes made by doctors and nurses during the birthing process.

Although children with very mild cerebral palsy occasionally recover by the time they are school-aged, cerebral palsy is usually a lifelong disability. In most cases, the movement and other problems associated with cerebral palsy will affect to varying degrees what a child is able to learn and do throughout life.

Types of cerebral palsy

Cerebral palsy is a broad term that encompasses many different disorders of movement and posture. To describe particular types of movement disorders covered by the term, pediatricians, neurologists, and therapists use several classification systems and many labels. To understand different types of cerebral palsy more clearly, you must first understand what professionals mean by muscle tone.

All children with cerebral palsy have damage to the area of the brain that controls muscle tone. As a result, they may have increased muscle tone, reduced muscle tone, or a combination of the two (fluctuating tone). Which parts of their bodies are affected by the abnormal muscle tone depends upon where the brain damage occurs.

There are three main types of cerebral palsy:

• Spastic Cerebral Palsy
  (stiff and difficult movement)
• Athetoid Cerebral Palsy
  (involuntary and uncontrolled movement)
• Ataxic Cerebral Palsy
  (disturbed sense of balance and depth perception)
• Mixed Cerebral Palsy
  There may be a combination of these types of cerebral palsy for any one person.

Causes of Cerebral Palsy

Causes of Cerebral Palsy

Why does your child have cerebral palsy? The simplest answer to this question is because your child has brain damage. This leads naturally into the second question: Why does your child have brain damage? There are many possible answers to this second question, because there are many reasons children can sustain brain damage. Your doctor must carefully review your child's health history and conduct a variety of medical and neurological tests to help determine the cause. Cerebral palsy is caused by an injury to the brain before, during, or shortly after birth. In many cases, no one knows for sure what caused the brain injury or what may have been done to prevent the injury. A large number of factors which can injure the developing brain may produce cerebral palsy. In general, however, there are two problems that can cause cerebral palsy:

1. Failure of the brain to develop properly (developmental brain malformation)

2. Neurological damage to the child's developing brain

Whatever the cause of your child's cerebral palsy, the severity of the brain damage generally depends on the type and timing of the injury. For example, in very premature babies, bleeding into the brain (intraventricular hemorrhage) can cause extensive damage. Also, the longer an unborn child goes without oxygen, the greater the extent of brain tissue damage.

Ten to fifteen percent of cerebral palsy is caused from a recognized brain injury, such as infection (like meningitis), bleeding into the brain, and damage caused by lack of oxygen. It is very important that you understand that a brain injury caused during delivery in many cases could have been prevented. Medical mistakes are responsible for thousands and thousands of cerebral palsy cases. It would be virtually impossible for a parent, on their own, to determine if a medical mistake caused their child's cerebral palsy or brain damage. It is only through the concerted efforts of a legal/medical team that can answer the question, "was my child's cerebral palsy preventable?"

Neurotherapy Neurotherapy

Neurotherapy ( NT ) is a medicineless, manipulative, alternative Therapy. Though it has its roots in the ancient Indian scriptures, Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra has reoriented and has evolved the different aspects of Neurotherapy, namely The NT. Principles, The specific NT. Diagnosis, The spcific language of NT. symbols & The different NT. Formulas for treating the different types of diseases/disorders.

Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra has succeeded in developing this therapy after intensive studies of diseases / disorders and correlating them to Anatomy & Physiology, then applying logically, the principles of his Neurotherapy to formulate the different Neurotherapy treatments to cure the various types of diseases.

Neurotherapy is a unique blend of medicineless therapy and medical studies.

The diagnosis includes specific Neurotherapy diagnosis and also medical reports like x-rays, ECG., Sonography, MRI-Scan pathological reports,etc.

NT believes that the body suffers from an ailment because the biochemical balance of acids, alkalies, hormones , enzymes, antigens, antibodies is disturbed in the human system. The NT treatment restores this disturbed biochemical balance by stimulating the various organs to function normally to produce the required chemicals in optimum quantities. In Neurotherapy, pressure is applied to stop the flow of blood to the specific region of the body mainly with feet and occasionally with hands for a particular duration (6 seconds to 40 seconds.) and then released, so that blood flows with a greater force to activate or deactivate the correlated nerves /glands / organs. This may be repeated as per the requirements of the patient, so as to maintains homeostasis of the body's biochemical forces, which in turn restores health.

In 1976 he named this therapy as "Neurotherapy" and in 1999 it was renamed as "Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra's Neurotherapy" to honour `THE CREATOR OF THIS NEUROTHERAPY'.

Nt. treatments are effective in treating Asthma , Arthritis, colds, injuries, hormonal imbalances, mental disorders, menstrual disorders, sterility, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, skin and digestive disorders are just a few examples.

Nt. also emphasises on regulating diet and lifestyle.

Some idea of the approach of the line of NT. treatment may be inferred from some of the examples cited below :-

Pancreas stimulation helps to treat following diseases:
• Blindness • Cancer • Cataract • Cerebral Disorder • Dropfeet • Heart Disorders • Motor Neuron Diseases • Multiple Sclerosis • Myasthenia Gravis • Night Blindness • Paralysis

Most hormones from Hypothalamus & Pituitaryact on a specific target endocrine gland. This gland in turn secretes specific hormones. When the level of these hormones in the blood reaches its desired levels, the pituitary and hypothalamus glands will stop secretion of the corresponding stimulating hormone of that gland. This is known as negative feedback mechanism. The pituitary gland (PIT) secretes hormones which stimulate all endocrine glands except the thymus, the parathyroids and the medulla part of the adrenal glands. It controls the thyroid gland (except for calcitonin secretion), both the adrenal cortices, the ovaries and the testes. Whenever there is a deficiency of a particular hormone, NT can stimulate PIT to secrete the particular stimulating hormone for that gland and correct the deficiency.

By God's grace, every chemical in the body is produced at two or more than two places, so that the person does not die because of deficiency of a particular chemical caused by defect in a particular organ. For example, 85% of Erythropoietin is produced in the kidneys Whenever there is less oxygen in the blood, this chemical will reach the bone marrow and the process of forming blood will start. When both the kidneys do not function properly, the liver will produce this chemical. Instead of 14 counts, haemoglobin produced by the liver will have 8 counts. NT gives importance to this point.

Our brain has 100 billion neurons and the spinal cord has 100 million neurons. The intestines also have 100 million neurons. 12 main types of chemicals are formed by neurons of the intestine, though it is true that the neurons of the brain form these chemicals in large quantity. If these chemicals are not formed due to a problem in brain neurons, there will be diseases like Parkinson's. NT activates the nervous system of the intestines (the enteric nervous system) and cures diseases occuring due to deficiency of chemicals prepared by the central nervous system.

Maintenance of acid-base balance is a very important factor for keeping good health. Acid is a substance which when dissolved in water produces hydrogen ions(H+ Alkali (base) produces hydroxyl ions(OH-), when dissolved in water. Normal pH of blood is between 7.36 and 7.44. If the digestive system functions normally, the acid-base balance is maintained. In most cases, according to NT, cause of disease is disturbance of this balance. When this is corrected, the patient gets healed.

NT. believes that a part of ascending colon is alkaline and the portion from the middle of transverse colon and full portion of descending colon is acidic. It also believes that the right kidney filters 80% alkali and 20% acid and that the left kidney filters 80% acid and 20% alkali. Similarly, it is also assumed that right ovary produces progesterone and left ovary produces oestrogen.

When T-Memory cells of the thymus gland do not work properly, it produces antibodies against the body's own proteins / cells. For example, if the proteins of the synovial membrane of the knee joints enter the blood, thymus will form antibodies against these proteins. The antibodies will affect the synovial membrane of the knee joint or any other joint and produce arthritis. This is called autoimmunity. In allopathy, the treatment is given with medicines containing steroids, whose dosage is much in excess of the body's requirement, thereby producing side effects. In NT, we give the treatment by stimulating the adrenal cortex which produces the required steroids in the right quantity automatically and therefore it will not have any side effects.

85% of the cholesterol is consumed by the liver for converting it into bile salts for digestion of fats. 15% of the cholesterol is consumed by the adrenal cortices, ovaries and testes for preparing corticoids, oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone. All the other hormones are glycoprotein or simple protein in nature. Intestine produces an amino acid called tyrosine during the digestionof food. Tyrosine is used to produce Tri-iodothyronine (T3) and Thyroxine (T4) of the thyroid gland and epinephrine and norepinephrine of the adrenal medulla. Health disorders may occur due to improper digestion and absorption because the patient does amino-acids, minerals and vitamins assimilated from the diet. NT is based on the navel setting of the abdomen, for digesting the food properly. If digestion and absorption are normal, then there will be no shortage of substrates like essential amino acids, minerals and vitamins and the patient is relieved of the ailments.

NT treatment for 2 years can regenerate the nerves in the part of the body, which has been de-nerved even for 2 years, if only the processes (dentrites and axons) are affected but the centre body of the neurone is intact.

FIBROMYALGIA CURE FOR NEUROTHERAPY AMRITSAR

Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts longer than 3 months. That’s the main symptom of Fibromyalgia: widespread muscle pain that lasts longer than 3 months. Widespread pain is defined as pain both above and below the waist and on both the right and left sides of the body.

At its best, Fibromyalgia may be described as “mild.” At its worst, intense pain can get in the way of doing normal day-to-day activities.

Some Fibromyalgia sufferers describe their pain as “all over” or “everywhere.” For some people, the pain and stiffness are worst when they wake up. Then it improves during the day. Symptoms may increase again at night. But other people have all-day, non-stop pain. This could include combinations of neck pain, arm pain, shoulder pain, back pain, hip pain, knee pain, feet pain, and pain in just about every other body part.

Voices of Fibromyalgia
“My eyelashes and tips of my hair are the
only parts of me that don't hurt.”

The pain may get worse with physical activity, stress, or anxiety. Fibromyalgia patients may also be more sensitive to things around them. This may include heat/cold, bright lights, loud sounds, and more. Even a gentle hug could be painful.Read more about the unique qualities of Fibromyalgia pain.

Pain is the core symptom of Fibromyalgia, but different people feel the pain in different ways. Fibromyalgia pain may be felt as:

Description	Real Voices of Fibromyalgia
Chronic pain	“I feel pain all over my body. Some days are better than others, but the pain is always there.”
Deep pain	“It is in the deep tissues. You can’t massage it out. It’s not just the surface. I can’t penetrate to where the pain is originating from.”
Widespread pain	“It is hard to explain where my pain is, it seems like it is everywhere else except some specific place.”
Aching pain	“Sometimes it is like a constant ache that is there, then you get up, you move around, it goes away and then it pops up someplace else.”
Radiating pain	“There are days that I have sharp pains that radiate down from my neck to my arm like a lightning bolt that strikes higher up, down to my arms, my hands.”
Shooting pain	“...shooting pain that sometimes I get in my shoulders and my neck, like a stabbing pain.”
Tender pain	“My body is so sensitive and tender that it hurts to be hugged.”

Other Common Fibromyalgia Symptoms

Additional common Fibromyalgia symptoms may be felt as:

Description	Real Voices of Fibromyalgia
Sleep disruptions	“I wake up feeling unrefreshed even after a full night’s sleep.”
Fatigue	“I feel very tired at times. Sometimes I feel so worn out and drained that I can’t take care of my family like I want to.”
Problems with memory and thinking clearly (sometimes called "fibro fog")	“Sometimes I have difficulty focusing. It’s like my mind is in a fog.”
Problems with depression and/or anxiety	“For so long the doc had told me I was depressed and I said, ‘Well I'm in pain all the time, of course I'm depressed.’”
Overlapping conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, restless leg syndrome, migraines, and others	“It feels like I have this aura of pain that follows me wherever I go.”

PARALYSIS FACTS AND INFORMATION (NEUROTHERAPY)

Paralysis Facts and Information

Paralysis Topics

• Paraplegia
• Quadraplegia

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Paralysis is a general medical term that basically involves the inability to move or use certain parts of the body. This condition is relevant in the legal world because often times, paralysis is caused by the acts or omissions of another person or entity. If this has happened to you, contact an attorney immediately, as you have rights that have to be enforced within a certain amount of time.

Below you will find general information regarding paralysis, and different ways in which this condition manifests itself in patients.

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Definition of Paralysis

Paralysis is defined as the complete loss of muscle function for one or more muscle groups. This condition usually manifests itself immediately after an injury has been suffered, and the condition is most often caused by damage to the nervous system or brain, especially the spinal cord. Paralysis often includes loss of feeling in the affected area.

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Types of Paralysis

Paralysis may be localized, or generalized, or it may follow a certain pattern. "Localized" means that the symptoms are restricted to one specific area of the body, such as the face, the toes or even one side of the body as a whole, which is also sometimes called hemiplegia. "Generalized" is a term that describes paralysis that pervades large portions of the body.

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Persistence of Paralysis

This condition is difficult to define and predict, as certain injuries lead to permanent loss of ability to control muscles, while other injuries can result in eventual recovery of the use of the muscle groups originally lost. It remains a mystery for each individual patient.

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Victims and Suffering from Paralysis

If you're a victim and suffering from any type of paralysis as a result of the actions of someone else, you need to contact and meet with an attorney as soon as possible.

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Paraplegic and Quadraplegic Lawyers and Attorneys

An experienced injury attorney will be able to analyze your situation, advise you as to your rights and help you proceed through the legal situation with the highest degree of professionalism possible. You need to concentrate on your treatment and recovery, so schedule a free consultation with an attorney today to make sure that your rights are protected.