There are many diseases that are fatal like cancer and HIV AIDS but there is hardly a disease like the dreaded Cerebral Palsy that attacks your child and causes him or her to lead an abnormal life till death. Signs of CP are not visible at the birth of a child and the hapless parents and guardians only notice the abnormality in motor movements of the child only after the 18th month till which the child experiences normal personality developments.
Not that the disease is dreaded merely because it attacks your loved child. There are many diseases that are more fatal in comparison. However, the medical scientists have been able to find out reasons for such diseases and search for preventives and cures are always on the run. This is exactly why Cerebral Palsy is dreaded because years of research and analysis have not been able to come out with the causes of Cerebral Palsy.
Since the reason why children suffer from CP is unknown, diagnosing for CP is a difficult proposition for medical scientists. The Cerebral Palsy treatments are still dependent on various forms of therapies instead of pharmaceutical drugs and only on extreme cases, the treating physician resorts to surgical operations.
Despite all these shortcomings, medical scientists have come up with some innovative therapies as preventives for CP and using them your child may leave a near normal life. So there is no reason to despair.
