Spastic Cerebral Palsy Lawyer, Ataxic, and Athetoid Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Palsy usually called CP is actually a term that refers to a group of disorders that affect muscle coordination and body movement in patients. People especially children who are affected by Cerebral palsy will find that they are unable to move their limbs and have very little control over their muscles. Cerebral Palsy occurs because there is damage to certain parts of the brain, which control muscle movements in the body. Damage to the brain can occur anytime during the pregnancy term or during birth or just after birth. Any grievous injury to the brain can lead to cerebral palsy. Alcohol consumption, drug abuse and infections in the mother during pregnancy can also lead to cerebral plasy.

There are different types of cerebral palsy and one of them is Athetoid CP. A child who suffers from this particular disorder can be extremely intelligent than even other normal children. While the brain is highly active, teeming with intelligence the body just refuses to move. This is because the muscles in the body of the affected child refuse to conform to any movement because they are just too loose. The child thus does not have vertical stability and finds it difficult to perform simple tasks like even scratching his or her nose, brushing their teeth or even holding apen or spoon in their hands. The child will have to put in extra effort to focus on his or her muscle coordination so that he or she can get it to obey the commands.

A child with athetoid CP will be making all sorts of gestures on their face, which can be ugly to look at, simply because the poor child has no control over the muscle. Facial contortions, grimaces and drooling are the most common symptoms of this disorder. All kids with this disorder look like they are performing various dance movements when they actually are not. It is because the child’s feet are unable to carry the weight of the child and this causes him or her to keep pulling their legs upwards like a dance movement.

Patients with Athetoid CP will have knees that are bent inwards not allowing them any free movements because they keep touching each other. This will hinder them form walking, sitting or even trying to be upright for a longer period. You will find them collapsing.
What causes this problem, which is unlike other cases of CP? It is the Basal Ganglia, which is present in the midbrain. The Basal Ganglia are specialized structures which help in maintaining the body posture in an individual and helps perform automatic movements like arm swings during walks. Because the Basal Ganglia gets damaged it results in causing fluctuations in muscle tone through out the body of a patient affected by Athetoid CP. The rapid change in muscle movement from high to low cause the body to become uncontrollable and movements become involuntary. These symptoms normally disappear when the child goes off to sleep.
Athetoid CP can be treated by various methods like providing speech therapy, music and dance therapy, physical therapy, yoga etc to the child. Muscle coordination can be improved tremendously with these therapies.

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An alarming increase in the number of cerebral palsy cases due to problems during birthing are being reported in USA. Excessive trauma during birth that results in the reduction of oxygen supply to the brain results in cerebral palsy. The form of cerebral palsy that manifests itself depends on which part of the brain is affected and how severely. Harm in the form of brain damage can be caused during a birthing if the care given and precautions taken are inadequate.

Any case of medical malpractice that is filed as the cause of cerebral palsy will depend on how evidence and facts are joined together to trace back cerebral palsy to a certain act or omission of a medical care giver. Legal firms absorb into their employment people who have a medical background. This kind of specialized personnel work in league with attorneys who know the ins and outs of the law related to personal injury to construct a case. Often when they start out they are armed with very sketchy details. Frequently expert witnesses are called in to verify several details.

Cerebral palsy lawyers are very well versed in all the technicalities attached to cerebral palsy. As most cerebral palsy conditions are caused by a brain injury that occurs during pregnancy or at birth, attorneys will be able to gather evidence strong enough to trace events during the period. It is also possible that any brain damage in the months or years following birth could have caused cerebral palsy. This is referred to as acquired cerebral palsy. Such details are brought to light by cerebral palsy attorneys.

The health care providers involved with patient care are doctors, nurses or lab or x-ray technicians or any other staff member of a medical facility. In case something goes wrong any of these care givers can be held responsible. It is the cerebral palsy attorney’s job to find out who was at fault.

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In the Parkersburg, three out of a hundred newborn babies are affected by cerebral palsy due to birth complications and doctor’s error. To claim compensation to meet medical needs, one requires the help of an experienced and qualified cerebral palsy lawyer.

Medical malpractice laws vary from state to state. The legal system in the United States offers a wide range of benefits for the victims of cerebral palsy. Prior to filing a suit against the doctor, it is necessary to consult a cerebral palsy lawyer who is specialized in handling medical malpractice law.

Parkerburg cerebral palsy lawyer consultation takes place between a lawyer who is experienced to handle birth injury litigations and the person who claims for medical compensation due to birth injury related cerebral palsy. Normally, consultations can be done in person, via the telephone, or through the Internet.

Consulting a spastic cerebral palsy lawyer before filing a lawsuit will help the clients to know about their legal and financial rights. Initial consultation is free of charge. Usually, initial consultation lasts about 30 to 60 minutes. Certain lawyers do not charge fees even if the clients take extra time in initial consultation.

During consultation, lawyers provide free answers to the legal questions of their clients. They can provide you with the best ways to obtain legal status. Besides, meeting with a lawyer can help the clients to stay current on the new laws that affect them.

Free cerebral palsy lawyer consultations are available with certain websites. The websites provide you with an online case review form. In an online case review form, the visitor provides information about victim as well as case description which would be sent for free evaluation to an experienced legal representative. Consulting cerebral palsy lawyers by means of online case review form is free of cost.

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The term ‘cerebral palsy’ taken literally, is actually a complete misnomer. The term ‘cerebral’ means ‘of the brain,’ whereas the term ‘palsy’ means complete or partial paralysis. Now, is it possible to paralyse a brain? Even a brain in a state of coma is far from paralysed. .

 There are approximately one hundred billion cells in the human brain, each with up to ten thousand connections, communicating almost constantly in various patterns of activity known as neural networks. It is therefore impossible for a brain to be in a state of paralysis. Let us now look at what your doctor actually meant when he said your child has cerebral palsy.

Cerebral palsy has many varied definitions, which have probably confused parents with their ambiguity, lack of clarity and complexity. I know when I first came across the term as a parent; I was confused by the varying definitions. The medical world seems particularly good at generating technical explanations of this sort; - explanations, which precisely because of the embedded technical jargon, parents find inaccessible and worrisome. Let’s examine some of the explanations, all from professionals, which have been passed to us by parents. You will note in the following definitions that the word ‘brain’ is mentioned only once and that is in the form of brain ‘abnormality: -’

Cerebral palsy is a term used to describe any disorder of movement and posture that results from a non - progressive abnormality of the immature brain.
A term for a non - progressive impairment of muscular function and weakness of the limbs.
A loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms.
A congenital disease, usually non-progressive and dating from infancy or early childhood, characterized by a major disorder of motor function.
A condition with various combinations of impaired muscle tone and strength, coordination, and intelligence.

Consider these five definitions: - what strikes you about them? - They are all descriptions of the symptoms of cerebral palsy. Not once is the true cause of cerebral palsy even mentioned. (one even refers to CP as a disease; - Wow!)

What is the cause of cerebral palsy?

The brain is very delicate. Muscles can briefly utilise energy in the absence of oxygen, - the brain cannot. The brain is totally dependent upon its oxygen supply, which it obtains from the blood supply to the brain. A disruption in the blood supply to the brain of just 1 second, will see all the available oxygen in the environment consumed. A 6 second disruption produces unconsciousness. Within minutes, permanent damage is taking place.

The cause of cerebral palsy therefore needs no complicated definition. It is simple and easy to understand. The cause of cerebral palsy is brain-injury. It is that simple! The brain-injury may have occurred in one of many ways; - oxygen starvation at birth, alcohol abuse or abuse of other drugs, infection, jaundice, malnutrition, or one of many other causes. The important and simple thing to remember is that cerebral palsy is caused by brain-injury; in fact, cerebral palsy is an expression of brain-injury.

What do you mean by an expression of brain-injury?

When I speak of cerebral palsy being an expression of brain-injury I am leading you down a path, which will hopefully allow you to see your child’s problems in a new light. Let us take this a little deeper and say that cerebral palsy is also a symptom (or set of symptoms), of brain-injury; - it is the way in which your child’s brain-injury expresses itself. There are other expressions of brain-injury, some of which are used interchangeably with cerebral palsy! I put the idea to you that cerebral palsy is a symptom of brain-injury in exactly the same way that a cough may be a symptom of a chest infection. The only reason for the existence of the term ‘cerebral palsy’ is that it, itself is a convenient marker for specific groups of sub-symptoms; - yes sub-symptoms of brain-injury! These symptoms might include spasticity, athetoid, ataxic, epilepsy, poor visual, auditory and tactile development, impaired motor function, poor language development, difficulties of socialisation, learning difficulties, or many others.

Isn’t this just ‘nit -picking’ over terminology?

No! It is important that this situation is both clarified and simplified. I have misgivings over the continued use of the term ‘cerebral palsy,’ (as I have misgivings over the continued use of many other labels such as ‘autism,’ for example). These are terms, which merely describe the symptoms. I believe it is misleading and overly-complex. It is much easier to understand the concept and the possible ramifications of brain-injury, than it is cerebral palsy. Although for the moment, I will continue to use the term ‘cerebral palsy’ interchangeably with brain-injury, because that is the ‘currency’ in which you have been dealing, I feel it is important that you should be aware of the problem with terminology and how it has encouraged the development of a focus upon symptoms as opposed to the cause.

I believe that in the case of brain-injury the medical world has fallen into the trap of merely trying to offset the worst effects of the symptoms. In some cases, as in the case of epilepsy, controlling symptoms is a necessary step, but this should be done alongside attempts to treat the cause of those symptoms, as in some cases the focus on treating symptoms can have the effect of making them worse.

Consider this example: A child of one of my clients took her son Michael, to see an orthopaedic specialist in Georgia. Michael’s brain-injury was very severe, he had what the medical establishment calls severe spastic quadriplegia, (again, this is a description of symptoms; - essentially all four limbs were very stiff). Because the excessive stiffness in Michael’s left leg was beginning to distort the limb and would have dislocated it, the orthopaedist decided to place a splint on the leg, to keep it fixed in a flexed position. The splint was left on all day, every day for six months and then Michael was taken back to see the orthopaedist to see how the limb was progressing. When the orthopaedist took the splint off Michael’s leg, he was horrified to find that the rigidity in the leg was no better; in fact, it was a great deal worse! Why was this do you think? Quite simply, it was because the treatment was focused on a symptom and not the cause, which was producing that symptom.

The signals, which Michael’s brain was sending to the leg, were having the effect of making the leg rigid. As far as the brain, in its injured, malfunctioning state was concerned; this was the desired state of affairs. When the orthopaedic consultant placed a splint on Michael’s leg, in order to try to relax it, this sent feedback to the brain that the leg was not in the state, which the brain desired (the brain was trying to keep the leg rigid). Therefore, the brain reinforced the signals, which were making Michael’s leg stiff, so that when the splint was eventually taken off, the stiffness was worse than before! I instituted a programme of vestibular stimulationin Georgia in order to correct the chemical imbalance in Michael’s lower brainstem, which I thought was causing this problem and within a few weeks, Michael was a more relaxed, more comfortable little boy.

So a primary principle of treatment is, whilst we take note of the symptoms and where they are an imminent threat to the child, we need to see that they are treated, we also concentrate on the cause of those symptoms, the injured brain! The reason those symptoms exist is because brain-injury has prevented the normal developmental processes from taking place, in the brain and consequently in the body. Consequently, to achieve success, we must provide assistance to those normal developmental processes! That is precisely what neuro-cognitive therapy does.

If your child is suffering from spastic cerebral palsy please contact a georgis cerebral palsy palsy lawyer for help.

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History Of Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy is a physical disability most common in childhood basically affecting the movements and posture causing limited activity being attributed to disturbances, which are not progressive occurring in the developing infant or fatal brain. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy are habitually accompanied by disturbances of cognition, sensation, perception, communication, and behavior or seizure disorder.

There are secondary orthopaedic abnormality inhibited by the child such as scoliosis of the spine and hip dislocation. Scoliosis is a condition involving spine’s lateral curvature greater than ten degrees without possible cure but can be treated by surgery or bracing.

William Little first detected the cerebral palsy also known as cerebral paralysis in 1860. He was a British surgeon identifying that asphyxia during birth is the major cause of the abnormality. Asphyxia is a condition where there is an occurrence of extremely deficient oxygen supply to the body leading to inability of breathing normally.

In 1897, Sigmund Freud, a neurologist said that the disorder is not brought about by a difficult birth rather from the symptoms of other effects during the development of the fetus.

In 1980, it was found out by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke that only few number of cases of cerebral palsy is due to lack of oxygen during birth.

It was believed by Thomas Galton that there is a consistency between aptitude and physical disability however this attitude stays prevalent leading to an over diagnosed cerebral palsy disorder in 1970.
This leads to occurrences of different cerebral palsy subtypes including hypotonic CP however only one individual out of 2000 are positively diagnosed with this disorder. So it only means that cerebral palsy depends on the people’s interpretation of what the disorder is. Spastic, Ataxic, Atheoid, and mixed are recognized by scholars as important forms of cerebral palsy open to subtypes existence.

It is a misnomer that cerebral palsy causes mental retardation because only those individual with brain damage associated with frontal cerebral cortex acquired this disorder.

Learning difficulties can occur but individuals with CP can have normal lives when it is managed effectively and coherently. Difficulties in movements are common with people diagnosed with cerebral palsy varying from minor levels of clumsiness.

Cerebral palsy can occur during pregnancy with a rate of 75%, at birth with a 5% rating, after birth with a 15% rating. Eighty percent of cerebral palsy causes are not known. However some known causes includes malnutrition, infections and major head injury during early stage of childhood.

Oklahoma cerebral palsy attorneys can help you with reclaiming your expenses for a cerebral palsy patients.

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