Cerebral Palsy

My six year old daughter has cerebral palsy and i'm struggling to control her increasing muscle spasticity.





Patient ID: Grace

Sex: Female

Age: 6

Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.

1. Describe your main suffering? Cerebral Palsy, Muscle spasms, Constipation,


2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body? Poor weight gain, lack of muscle control, no speech


3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings? Sensitive to noise & sudden frustration, irritation.movements,


4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Constricted, tense, helpless


5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease? Insult during pregnancy


6. Which time of the day you are worst? midday

7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Heat, noise


8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)? Heat, Noise, Dairy


9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather? Cold wet weather


10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc. Sensitive

- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm? No change

- Do you like being consoled during your tough times? Yes
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc? Yes, especially noise

- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
weeping, talking to one self etc? Turning head back & to the left

- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?

11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?


12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions? Loves strong flavours, liver, garlic etc. Dislikes lamb


13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive? Very poor

14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive? Very good appetite

15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand? Dairy

16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs? Sweats a lot. Head, feet, hands

17. How is your bowel movement and stool type? Constipated, hard dry stools, never completed

18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping? Sleeps well but dislikes going to bed, sleeps on back with
hands out to side

19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?

20. What peculiar or strange sensation do you have in any part of your body at times? Do you sometimes feel ‘ as if…..’ in some part of the body?


21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication? L-Dopa for muscle relax. Baclofen for muscle relax. Movicol for constipation. Melatonin for sleep


22. What major diseases are running in your family? Diabetes


23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance. Very Dark Hair, Hazel eyes. Very thin frame, small for age. Small head & features, freckles, light skin