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Default Whats the difference between Cerebal Palsy, Erbs Palsy and Mental retardation? - 01-10-2009, 03:31 AM

I happened to be watching Carlos Mencia's special and he mentioned that Cerebal Palsy wasn't mental retardation that the people just hava a problem with their arms and answer a little slower. Can someone explain cerbal palsy to me, and its difference to Erbs Palsy and Mental retardation
   
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Cerebral palsy is a problem with the nervous system inside the brain (hence the cerebral part). Depending on a given patient's path of disorder it can have effects all over the body.Erbs palsy is a problem with nerves in the brachial complex that feeds the arms; it is somatic-specific and extra-cranial.Mental retardation is a more generalized term to denote those who's brains just don't seem to work the way we think it should.
   
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Default 03-26-2009, 08:28 AM

Cerebral Palsy is caused between birth and two years of age. Bleeding of the brain or severe brain damage cause Cerebral Palsy. There many different degrees of it. I have Cerebral Palsy and in my case it was caused by brain bleeds and being born 3 months early. Cerebral Palsy affects muscle control and sometimes Mental Retardation is part of it. Not always though. Mental Retardation can also be caused by brain trama. At any age. Mental retardation means a person can only learn cetain things. There are varying degrees of that too. I don't what Erbs Palsy is but I hope I helped you out a bit.
   
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Palsy, of any sort, is a muscular problem. Cereberal Palsy is the name given to a condition that affects the neurons and motor links between the brain (hence cereberal) and various muscles of the body. So the problem is in the message center of the brain, not in the muscles that are carrying out the instructions.Mental retardation has to do with how the brain processes knowledge. If you've ever had freezing put in your mouth for dental work, you will remember how your tongue felt huge and numb, and when you tried to speak it was very hard to make the sounds come out the way you wanted them to. That's a very crude analogy of how Cereberal Palsy works, and when you talk to someone who has it, it sounds as though there was something wrong with their speech, but the problem isn't with their not knowing what to say, or how to say it, it's with getting that information from their brain to their mouth. Similarily, walking or using their hands is difficult, not because they don't know what to do, but because the brain mis-fires and doesn't send messages to the muscles in the proper time or order.None of this has anything to do with mental retardation. When you speak to someone who is mentally retarded, depending upon the degree of their retardation, they will speak like a young child. But they can speak quite understandably. They can also walk and use their hands reasonably well.It is a sad fact that most people with Cereberal Palsy have higher than average intelligence.Hope this helps to explain the differences.
   
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