Botox Helps Children With CP

Botox is earning more and more recognition for its benefits to those with health ailments and is no longer seen as having only cosmetic effects.

Places like the Botox Clinic at Gillette Children’s Hospital in St. Paul are treating hundreds of children per year living with cerebral palsy.

Little Girl Benefits from Botox

Tori Jenson, a three-year-old living with cerebral palsy routinely visits the Botox clinic to get some much needed relief.

The shots supposedly help her to relax the spastic muscles she has in her arms and legs.

Getting Botox on a regular basis allows Tori to walk more easily.

“If the Botox didn’t work so well, we probably wouldn’t do this,” explains Tori’s mother, Casey Jorgenson.

The Benefits of Botox

In recent months Botox has become a fast fix for doctors seeking to relieve pain in their patients who are suffering from disabilities.

“You can use Botox for a lot more clinical problems than we originally thought,” says Dr. Dennis Dykstra, the chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

How Botox Works

Botox blocks chemicals from the brain that inform nerve endings when to move muscles.

The injections that are given to children like Tori tell select nerves in her legs to stop the spasms that are making it difficult to walk.

(Source: Two Cities)

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