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Children with spinal cord dysfunction, for example, face medical problems such as skin and senseless bowel and bladder dysfunction, which differ significantly from the medical problems faced by children with cerebral palsy. Dysfunction of the spinal cord can result from spinal cord injury, spina bifida (meningomyelocele), or a congenital malformation of the spinal cord.

Another large group of children at the time that look similar to people with cerebral palsy are children with motor problems temporarily as a result of closed head injuries, seizures, drug overdose, or some brain tumors.

The medical problems of this group of children also are different from medical problems for children with cerebral palsy, because these injuries can occur at any age and severity of problems caused by these injuries changes over time. We can also say that disorders that are mostly muscle, nerve, bone and cerebral palsy are not, by definition. These conditions include muscular dystrophy, peripheral neuropathy, such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, and osteogenesis imperfecta.

All these conditions are related to specific medical problems. Children with progressive neurological disorders (including Rett syndrome, leukodystrophy, and Tay-Sach’s disease) also have medical needs that are different from those of children with cerebral palsy.

Some children with chromosomal abnormalities (eg, trisomy 13 and 18) or congenital abnormalities (hereditary spastic, for example) may appear similar to children with cerebral palsy, others, such as children with Down syndrome, seem very different from those children with cerebral palsy. Children with these disorders have some problems in common with children who have cerebral palsy, but also has problems that are unique to children with specific disorders.

It also explains why modern obstetrical care, including monitoring and a high rate of Cesaria section, has reduced infant mortality rates, but not the incidence of cerebral palsy. A large study, for example, has revealed that over 60 percent of all pregnancies have at least one complication, and that most of these complications do not cause problems. For example, 25 percent of all newborns have the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, and 16 percent passed meconium (the first bowel movement) at birth.

These “events of birth and development of CP have only a small correlation. In other words, the chances of a child developing COP were almost the same whether the child was born with a cord wrapped around his neck or not. On the other hand, babies in this study had very low Apgar scores (less than 3 to 20 minutes) had a risk 250 times higher than children with Apgar scores normal development of cerebral palsy.

An Apgar score at this level suggests that the baby suffered severe asphyxia (lack of sufficient oxygen to the brain) during childbirth. Half of babies suffering from severe asphyxia during birth did not develop cerebral palsy, however. When CP is diagnosed in childhood, often discovers that the boy suffered asphyxia at birth, asphyxia, but is generally regarded as a symptom of a disease for another baby with a neurological problem, not the main cause of CP.
In two large studies, only about 9 percent of children with cerebral palsy se cree que han COP directly and exclusively related to asphyxia at birth. Ninety-one percent of babies have other inherent causes which led to prematurity or perinatal or neonatal problems (problems in the nineteenth century, Dr. John William Little described cerebral palsy and stated that the condition is due to birth injuries in most cases.

Cerebral palsy is also known as Little’s disease and static encephalopathy, but the term is most commonly used cerebral palsy. Master Tole also investigated the causes of cerebral palsy, thought that the condition is due to something that happened before the birth of the child. He argued that problems at birth often seen due to an abnormality in the baby before birth, rather than being caused by the process of childbirth. However, the process of childbirth can be traumatic for the baby, and injuries that occur during childbirth can also sometimes cause cerebral palsy, that the concept of Tole look alike.