WRITTEN BY CHARLES EHIRIM
Medical experts have repeatedly happed on the need to save new born babies from preventive permanent disabilities resulting from some common medical events such as: difficult birth delivery, Cerebral palsy, post injection palsy and other skeletal defects. Common among the disabilities these days are the ones resulting from difficult birth delivery and Post Injection Palsy.
Difficult birth delivery may result, among others, in a baby having injured nerve in the neck, which would render the shoulder and the hand weak or paralyzed. In medical jargon, such condition in new born babes is called Erb’s palsy. As soon as this weakness or paralysis is noticed, of course, it behooves on the doctor to refer the victim to good physiotherapy care where frantic effort will be made to restore the lost reflexes.
In the case of post injection palsy, this is caused when an injection is given on vulnerable area on the buttocks, not minding the nerves that transverse the buttocks. There are possibilities of injuring any of the nerves that make up the sciatic nerve in the buttocks. If any of the nerves is punctured, while giving injection via the buttocks, it will affect the way the victim walks.
Reacting to the development recently at Omega Physiotherapy and Back Pain Care Clinic, Onitsha during a one-day enlightenment lecture for mothers with children with challenges such as Erb’s Palsy, Cerebral Palsy, post injection palsy, etcetera, the consultant Physiotherapist of Omega Physiotherapy and Back Pain Care Clinic, Onitsha, Charles Ehirim emphasized the importance of skillful physiotherapy in ameliorating the problem resulting from birth injuries and other associated conditions.
At the one-day enlightenment lecture for mothers with children with challenges such as Erb’s Palsy, Cerebral Palsy, post injection palsy, among others, there was distribution of books on understanding common birth injuries written by the consultant physiotherapist for mothers who were present.
The consultant Physiotherapist, who is also a millennium Development Goals Ambassador, lamented on the prevalence of most birth injuries that have persisted beyond their expected time of recovery, due to unskillful management and involvement of unorthodox practice that may have compounded the already existing condition.
He encouraged mothers whose children have birth injuries, injection palsies and the likes to feel free to talk to their doctors for referral to reputable physiotherapy outfit or seek a good physiotherapy centre for their babies’ recovery of the functional disabilities before it is too late which would make rehabilitation difficult. A stitch in time, they say, saves nine.
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