At almost three years old Hannah Marie Fee is one of thousands of children in the UK living with Spastic Deplegia Cerebral Palsy.

Spastic Deplegia Cerebral Palsy is a condition that effects the limbs (more commonly the legs) causing increased tone and tension in muscles. This is due to slight brain damage on the outer layer of the brain, the Cerebral Cortex, causing complications in brain-to-nerve-to-muscle communication.

There are several treatments used to manage Spastic Deplegia Cerebral Palsy for example leg braces/splints intense physio therapy and botox treatment however there is no guarentee of our children walking with either of these treatments. In a lot of cases such treatments have helped many children to walk but sadly its not enough for others.

There is one medical treatment used in a few countrys in europe which so far has a 100% success rate. This is an operation called Selective Dorsal Rhitzotomy (SDR), This involves cutting some sensory nerve fibres that come from the muscle entering the spinal cord reducing spasticity. Over 2000 SDR operations have been performed in the US and so far each patient has learned to walk and do normal day to day activitys.