Nursing on children with cerebral palsy.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 7 Nursing on children with cerebral palsy [Keywords:] cerebral palsy care Cerebral palsy (cerebral palsy) referred to as cerebral palsy, was born in January, before and after birth due to various reasons, non-progressive brain damage, mainly for the central movement disorders and abnormal posture. May be associated with mental retardation, epilepsy epilepsy, hearing and vision disorders. The incidence of cerebral palsy in China was 1.8 ‰ -4 ‰, foreign reports as 1.5 ‰ -5 ‰. [Clinical manifestations] According to the nature of movement disorders with cerebral palsy, spastic sub-clinical, athetosic, ataxia type, tonic type, type of tremor, hypotonia, hybrid. Than cerebral palsy movement disorders, the dysfunction is often associated with other such as mental retardation (30% -50%), epilepsy (25% -50%), vision disorders (such as strabismus, amblyopia, nystagmus, etc. up to 50%), hearing loss (10% -15%), language barriers, cognitive and behavioral disorders. 1. Spastic cerebral palsy is the most common type, accounting for 75% of cerebral palsy. Lesions mainly in the pyramidal tract, mostly bilateral, showed increased muscle tone, increased tension of upper limb flexor, shoulder adduction , elbow flexion, thumb adduction, fingers clenched fist was like. Leg thigh adductor muscle tension increased, internal rotation of hip, thigh abduction problems, ankle plantar flexion. Picked up, the legs hanging cross into the scissors-like heel, toes touch the ground. Walking foot Hing Wah Street West, scissors-like gait . children with limited physical activity, hyperthyroidism, or an active tendon reflexes, ankle clonus was positive after 2-year-old Palestinian’s sign is still positive. standstill in the form may have quadriplegia, hemiplegia, paraplegia, and one paralysis. 2. Athetosic type accounts for about 20% of cerebral palsy. Lesions mainly in the extrapyramidal system, the performance is difficult to control with t