What is Cerebral Palsy? Detailed answer

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What is Cerebral Palsy?

With cerebral palsy, the patient is almost unable or not at all able to control his body. This can happen if one of the three main areas of the brain that control muscle activity is damaged. One such area of the brain, called the motor cortex, is responsible for planning and controlling movement. When it is damaged, the muscles become stiff and immobile.

One group of nerve cells in the brain, called the main ganglion (ganglion), cancels or delays certain types of muscle movements. When this area is damaged, voluntary muscle movements occur. They can be slow, or they can be convulsive, sharp.

A third area of the brain, called the cerebellum, controls muscle coordination and balance. If this area is damaged, the person's movements become clumsy and uncoordinated.

Cerebral palsy can occur for various reasons. Any defect in the brain can occur during the prenatal period, for example, if the mother was ill or had some kind of injury during pregnancy. The brain can be damaged at the time of birth. If the baby was not able to start breathing normally after being born, oxygen does not enter the bloodstream, and this can damage nerve cells.

The treatment of cerebral palsy is a very lengthy, never ending process. Its goal is by no means to restore the normal state of the child, but to teach him at least elementary independent actions and make him at least to some extent a useful and happy member of society. The most important thing in the treatment of children with cerebral palsy is muscle training. It is equally important that the child feels the love and attention of the people around him.

Author: Likum A.

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What are primary colors?

If you pass a sunbeam through a glass prism, you will see that it turns into a rainbow of colors called a spectrum. It consists of all those colors that together form the so-called white light. But while you can probably see six or seven colors, white light is actually made up of three primary colors. These colors are called primaries because they cannot be combined with other colors.

The primary colors are orange-red, green and violet-blue. The other colors you see in the rainbow of the spectrum are combinations of primary colors. Looking at the spectrum, even with the naked eye, you can easily see three mixed colors, which are called secondary: blue-green, yellow and red. You can get these colors by mixing primary colors in certain combinations. But remember that we are talking about light. Paints for drawing are solids, that is, the exact opposite of light colors. Secondary light colors are the primary colors of paints. This means that among the colors, the primary colors are yellow, green-blue and red. By mixing these colors, you can get all the others.

There are many other ways to classify paints. Bright colors obtained without the help of black or white inks are called pure colors. Yellow, red, blue and green are pure colors. The colors obtained by mixing pure colors with black are called colored shadows. Dark brown is a color shade. Colors obtained by mixing them with white are called hues. Pink color, ivory color are shades. Colors obtained by mixing pure colors with black and white are called tones. Reddish brown, beige and gray are tones.

Here is another interesting fact about color. What color do you think the red paint is before you open the box? She doesn't look red, but black! This is because where there is no light, there is no color. In a dark room, there is no such thing as color. The color of an object depends on the material from which it is made and on the light in which we consider this object: for example, a red-orange sweater looks like this because wool dye reflects the red-orange part of the light spectrum. Violet-blue and green parts of the spectrum are absorbed by the material of the sweater. Only orange-red rays are reflected, which is what you see.

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