Mumbai doctors give new lease of life to child living with cerebral palsy
For many parents, a child’s first steps are a moment of joy. For one family, however, their baby girl’s early steps were accompanied by worry.
Doctors in Mumbai successfully treated a three-year-old girl diagnosed with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy through a minimally invasive, single-session intervention and helped her move closer to a more natural way of walking. The procedure was led by Dr Taral Nagda, senior consultant – Paediatric Orthopaedics, at Narayana Health SRCC Children’s Hospital.
Her journey had been delicate from the very beginning. Born prematurely at seven months, weighing just 1250 grams, she had spent her earliest days in the NICU for three months as her tiny body learned to stabilise and grow. As she got older, there were small signs that things were not following ...






