Understanding Cerebral Palsy
Dec 09, 2025
Most people think cerebral palsy is about muscles.
It isn’t.
Cerebral palsy is a movement organization condition — not a strength problem, not a motivation problem, not a “work harder” problem.
When a child has CP, it means their brain is trying to move in a world with gravity without the right developmental tools:
Rotation
Weight transfer
Buoyancy
Reversibility
Transitions
Momentum
ControlWhen these early movement forces don’t organize in the usual way, the body doesn’t stop trying — it compensates.
Compensation can look strong, determined, clever, even “high functioning.”
But inside, the system is working 10× harder just to stay upright.
My work in cerebral palsy focuses on one thing:
Giving the child’s body the tools it never got.
Not forcing function.
Not drilling repetitions.
Not fighting tone.
But restoring:
• rotation
• midline
• diagonals
• weight transfer
• transitions
• gravity negotiation
When these come online — even a little — everything changes:
Sitting is easier Rolling becomes possible Crawling emerges Balance improves Speech and breath organize The child gains agency Families finally understand what they’re seeingCP isn’t a mystery.
It’s a developmental map.
And once you know how to read it, you can help a child move with less struggle and more freedom.
Over the next week, I’ll be releasing a complete guide explaining:
how CP movement actually works what the early warning signs look like how to understand your child’s unique pattern what matters (and what doesn’t) the 12 developmental stages what actual functional progress looks likeThis is for parents, clinicians, and anyone who wants to understand CP through a lens that finally makes sense.
We don’t “fix” CP.
We give the child their system back.