In our society, most people think that the condition known as cerebral palsy is a mental disorder, and therefore, on many occasions, the patient’s family, which is desperate for a cure, takes the patient to various religious places to partake in different rituals to receive divine blessings to overcome the disorder; or else, they visit exorcists who beat the patient to get rid of ghosts that have allegedly taken over the body of the patient, etc.

   However, in reality, there is no improvement in the condition of the patient due to such activities, but definite- Debarshi Kar Mahapatra HEALTH ly the patient’s family is made to pay a lot of money to fraudsters. So, let us look at this condition to understand what the problem that gives rise to this disorder is.

   This condition presents during childhood and it is due to damage involving those parts of the brain which are known as cerebral hemispheres or the basal....