The overflowing joy of a baby with cerebral palsy walking for the first time

07/07/2018 –

The joy of a 4-year-old girl with cerebral palsy overflows: she begins to walk for the first time in her life. The Michigan girl was diagnosed with cerebral palsy shortly after her first birthday. At this age, a long recovery period began and several operations took place.

Maya Tisdale was born premature and suffered from spastic dysplasia with cerebral palsy, which prevented her from walking with a walker all her life. This pathology makes the muscles of your hips, legs and feet tight, spastic. Thus, she can not move alone without the help of the walker

Despite all the adversities, the family did not give up.

And the video shows the joy of this little girl to walk without help.

The girl was operated on May 9 to help improve her condition and the diagnosis indicated that she could start walking in a period of six months to a year. Seven weeks after that, Maya had reached

The baby's parents, excited, were surprised by the advances, but cautious at the same time. "She still has brain damage and stiffness in her legs, so we should continue to improve day after day."