Cerebral Palsy and Medical Malpratice Litigation
Resources for Cerebral Palsy Victims
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Cerebral palsy is a chronic medical condition affecting one's body movements and muscle coordination. Characterized as a Neurological Disorder, this congenital condition is caused by damage to the brain, usually occurring during fetal development, or during infancy. It can also occur before, during or shortly following birth. Parents of a child who suffers from Cerebral Palsy are often left with the wrong impression that their child was diagnosed with an unpreventable birth defect.
Sadly, this condition has no cure. Most parents feel victimized and are lost and left with undeserved guilt. Most have few resources to search for answers. Health insurance may not help much. For these parents, filing a cerebral palsy lawsuit is one ways of finding answers. Since accidents and incompetence during the birth process can cause cerebral palsy, it is often in the best interest of those affected to seek compensation through a medical negligence lawyer (medical malpractice attorney) in the form of a medical malpratice lawsuit.
Personal Injury Attorneys
- Birth Injury Lawyers - Goren, Goren & Harris are birth injury lawyers with law firms in Michigan and Ohio, however, they help clients nationwide.
- Law Offices of Andrew J. Tuteur, "are experienced trial lawyers who sue doctors, surgeons, hospitals, and all types of healthcare providers when their carelessness or mistakes cause someone to be hurt physically and financially."
- Paulson Law Firm represents individuals and families in personal injury, birth injury, traumatic brain injury, wrongful death and other serious or catastrophic injuries.
- Bass & Rubinowitz provide quality representation for seriously injured individuals in Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Long Island, and the surrounding areas.
Although NINDS (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) continues its ongoing research, including Stem Cell Research, and the March of Dimes and Easter Seals continue to raise money to fund medical studies, doctors and specialist physicans cannot cure this severe disability. Cerebral palsy is not progressive (it is brain damage which does not get worse). However, secondary conditions, such as muscle spasticity, atxia, and athetosis can develop which may get better over time, get worse, or remain the same. Cerebral palsy is not a communicable condition. It is not a disease. Medications include Valium, Lioresal, Dantrium and Botox. Proper nutrition for those affected is a concern for those who cannot care for themselves.
The subject of countless studies over the past century reported by the American Medical Association, there's still no cure. Additional information can be found online at many Cerebral palsy related websites, and at major booksellers like Barnes and Noble, Borders Books, and online locations like Amazon.com.
What is Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy limits one's ability to use the muscle in the body in a normal fashion. Children affected by it are often unable to walk, talk, eat or play in the same way as other children. Cerebral palsy is neither progressive nor communicable. It is also not "curable" in the accepted sense. However education, therapy and applied technology can help persons with cerebral palsy lead productive lives. It is important to know that it is not a disease or illness. It isn't contagious and it doesn't get worse. Since cerebral palsy is chronic and not "curable" children will have it all their lives.
Although, it is hard to always determine the cause of cerebral palsy, it is generally accepted that an injury to the head or brain of a child before, during, or shortly after birth can cause Cerebral Palsy. The severity of the brain damage usually depends on the type and timing of the injury. In very premature babies, bleeding into the brain can cause extensive damage cerebral damage. Another factor is the oxygen supply for the infant. The longer a infant goes without oxygen (asphyxia) the greater risks are for sever damage
Infants who have suffered severe lack of sufficient oxygen to the brain during birth can be born with Cerebral Palsy. Many cerebral palsy cases share this common attribute. Therefore the birthing process must be monitored and handled with skill. Modern prenatal care and improved obstetric care have significantly reduced the incidence of birth injury, but human error will probably never be completely eliminated.