Does CP get worse over time?
(from Renée Walsh, RPT) No, it is a non-progressive encephalopathy, which means, literally, a brain sickness that does not get worse. A person with CP can lose skill if it is not practiced. Also, if a person with CP grows too tall too quickly, often their pattern of walking and their posture will look worse as they adapt their sense of balance to their changing body. Children who have had tendon releases early in life may require a second release at the end of their teenage years due to faster growth of normal muscle and delayed growth of spastic muscle. Of course, before that surgery takes place, they may appear to have gotten worse. A: (from Dr. Lawrence Epple) No the damage done to your brain is over. You, of course, are left with the consequences of that damage, but it isn’t going to get any worse. Let me give you an analogy. Imagine if someone hit me into the head with a hammer and caused bleeding and bruising in my brain. As soon as they stopped hitting my head and the bleeding s
