Let's take a step towards children

Annually teachers and doctors from Potiivska boarding school for children with cerebral palsy and poliomyelitis put a few seriously ill children on their feet and learn to walk. Rehabilitation and care qualitatively improve the lives of children who suffer from pain caused by the disease. To do this they need to deal with children constantly, introduce new technologies and purchase special equipment. It could be possible with the help of benefactors. The budget does not provide money for the purchase of rehabilitation equipment. It barely has enough for the essentials.

All of course know that there is such a disease as cerebral palsy (CP). Very often children acquire cerebral palsy as a result of medical error at birth. And then these children live all their life with these three letters abbreviations - someone better, someone worse. But clearly that all of them suffer from constant pain: aching spine, arms and legs spinning, get cramps. And very few people are interested in how these children live and whether they can live better. Yes, they can. With competent rehabilitation and care the child can be taught to walk, talk, or sit, or crawl, even with complex form of cerebral palsy. But most importantly you can help the child cope with the pain and significantly reduce it.

Typically children with cerebral palsy go by rehabilitation once or twice a year. But this is a very ineffective method. These children need to practice every day, they need a separate rehabilitation center. Charity Foundation "Center of Help" now creates a rehabilitation center based in Potiivska boarding school for children with cerebral palsy and polio consequences in Zhytomyr region. One of the most complex problems in working with children with cerebral palsy consequences is a rehabilitation and care. Teachers do the impossible and gets to their feet even seriously ill children, adapt them in everyday life.

In order rehabilitation to be effective it’s necessary to introduce the latest techniques and equipment constantly. The modern equipment is purchased, teachers get a second higher education and can work as defectologists, hippotherapy is introduced.

Now boarding school needs to purchase modern medical and rehabilitation equipment - apparatus for vacuum and pneumatic massage. With the help of pneumatic pressure therapy massager conducted and effective lymphatic drainage. It is necessary for the prevention and treatment of vascular disorders of the lower extremities - for normal blood circulation to reduce pain, to put the child on its feet.

Vacuum massage is highly effective in the rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy consequences. It improves blood circulation and oxygenation of the muscle tissue and brain while reducing muscle and vascular tone. What gives the treatment course? Due to the decrease in excitability of the cerebral cortex improves health of the child: it has a burst of cheerfulness, increased mood and appetite, normal sleep and motor functions. That is without the normal therapy child does not eat, sleep, irritable, cries a lot, and does not have the strength and desire to withstand the hardest sessions for rehabilitation.

Do you know what the rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy is? It's a hard work, many hours of painful procedures – during them it’s hurt and scary. It hurts when your body and muscles strongly stretched, scary when you hang upside down when your back arch so that it seems that it’s about to break. This work daily and seven days a week. This life is difficult to name childhood, but it is still childhood. We must do our best to teach these children walk, improve their lives and give them a chance for the future. Children with cerebral palsy have a chance for recover and adaptation, chance for work and family. Maybe not all know about it, but together we will prove everyone that this is so.

This year school really needs to buy two pneumatic massagers and two apparatus for vacuum massage total cost 55 920 UAH. Join us!