Cerebral Palsy Children Have Improved Hand Function Following Play Therapy Combined with Physiotherapy

Impairment of hand function causes  very significant disability in children with spastic cerebral palsy, to the extent that they often cannot use their hands at all and do not learn to deal with most tasks involving the hands.

A Study involving groups of children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy has found  that the group of children treated with a combination of play therapy along with conventional physiotherapy scored significantly higher in certain hand grasp and release tests than those treated with conventional physiotherapy alone. This indicates that a combination of these therapies is much more effective in improving hand function in children with this type of cerebral palsy.(Buddhadey DNP, Arya DB. Effectiveness of Play Therapy over Conventional Physiotherapy in Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy Children NJIRM, 2012; 3(2):159-162). Play therapy has also been  found to be beneficial in the development of hand-to-eye co-ordination, as well as fine and gross motor skills.

Our expert clinical negligence lawyers at Chadwick Lawrence LLP are specialists in cerebral palsy birth injury claims and are used to dealing with cases in which children and young adults are profoundly disabled as a result of unfortunate failures by doctors, midwives and obstetricians, before, during and after birth, resulting in hypoxic brain injury. We welcome news of progress in therapies to improve the abilities and quality of lives of our clients, their families and carers.

Our team of dedicated expert birth injury and cerebral palsy solicitors all  have many years of experience in handling cerebral palsy claims and claims for compensation for other birth injuries. It is important that your claim is dealt with by specialist Medical negligence lawyers, as birth injury claims are usually complex and high value. We specialise solely in complex clinical and Medical negligence claims and have an excellent record. We represent birth injury, cerebral palsy and brain damaged children and adults in high value Medical negligence claims. We have the expertise to obtain the maximum amount of damages to compensate and provide for you and/or your child’s future and to support you and your family through the process. Please see our cerebral palsy and birth injury website for more information: http://www.cerebralpalsyclaimssolicitors.co.uk

Our team is led by Tony May, a specialist birth injury and cerebral palsy solicitor with over 20 years experience and expertise in dealing with cerebral palsy claims, Erb’s palsy claims and other birth injury Medical negligence compensation cases, many resulting in multi million pound settlements. Tony also acts as the Court of Protection Deputy for cerebral palsy and brain damaged clients, so we can continue to provide ongoing support after your case has settled. Tony can be contacted be email on anthonymay@chadlaw.co.uk

Article by: Jacqueline Vance, Associate and News solicitor in Huddersfield, Wakefield, Halifax, Leeds and West Yorkshire. jacquelinevance@chadlaw.co.uk

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