Juniper Publishers- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

  JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES Abstract Cerebral palsy is the most common cause of physical disability in childhood. Muscular pain is one of the commonest secondary problem for cerebral palsy patients. Since there are very less literature available on the muscular pain management secondary to cerebral palsy, this paper highlights relevant aspects of non-pharmacological pain management. Keywords: Muscular pain; Cerebral palsy; Non-pharmacological management; Physiotherapy; Complementary and alternative medicine Introduction Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a group of disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitations that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances occurring in the developing fetal or infant brain [1]. It is the most common cause of physical disability in childhood which affects ranging from 1.5 to more than 4 per 1...

JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES As impressive as our technological triumphs are, they do nothing to relieve our interpersonal difficulties. Nor do they clarify our relationship to nature because they do not elucidate who we are and how we can better relate to each other. Unfortunately, neither the social sciences nor arts offer much toward resolving or clarifying the underlying philosophical issues. The social sciences give muddled if not contradictory answers which create as many problems as they solve while art devolved hopelessly in demoralizing phases from the primitive to the infantile to the inane if not insane in our paranoid, self-constructed, post-modern, fragmented, relativistic, subjective, deconstructive world [1] in which nonsense seems relevant [2] when packaged as targeted nonsense [3]. Symptomatically, poet Henry Longfellow was dismissed by 20th century critics as a 19th century windbag for lacki...