Offering hope to millions of paralyzed people – Treating paralysis
If you or your loved one has suffered a paralysis attack then you might know that it can be a very disheartening prognosis. But there is a way to rehabilitate and make your loved one more self-sufficient. Here is a post on treating and rehabilitating a paralysed patient.
Treating paralysis paralysis Treatment
Unfortunately, there is no cure for permanent paralysis till date. Treatment in such cases is actually mostly rehabilitation which helps the person to adapt to the compromised life and to become as independent as possible with the help of aids. It also aims to correct the complications such as pressure ulceration (ulcers which arise due to a static position on the bed that arise from paralysis).
Hypokalemic periodic paralysis is an inherited disorder in which a person has episodes of muscle weakness and sometimes severe paralysis. Treatment is given to relieve symptoms and prevent further attacks. Potassium helps prevent an attack and is either orally or, in severe cases, intravenously administered. A medicine called acetazolamide prevents attacks in many cases. Triamterene or spironolactone may help prevent attacks in people who do not respond to acetazolamide. A study from California suggested that Topiramate is also effective in cases of children.
Read more about causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of paralysis.
Advances in surgical management of facial paralysis include artificial muscles for eyelid reconstruction, dynamic muscle transfer for the eye, and orthodromic temporalis tendon transfer, as found by the Hopkins researchers in their review.
‘Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy can relieve spastic paralysis after stroke, with better therapeutic effect and no side-effects, but clinical and mechanism studies are still needed,’ say researchers from China.