This is Lewis Brierley, he is an 11-year old boy from Eccles, Manchester, with Cerebral Palsy. Lewis was diagnosed at a very young age with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy. He is a happy little boy who would love to live a normal life and do things like playing football with his friends. Lewis has to rely on a wheelchair to get around. Spastic Cerebral Palsy is a form of cerebral palsy that causes tightness in the muscles. Because of this tightness, spastic cerebral palsy patients have a difficult time controlling their movement. Their motions may be abrupt and jerky. Lewis was born in April 1999 and is now eleven and has just started high school and attends 5 days a week. Lewis has been offered the chance of an operation in America that will remove the spasticity in his legs allowing him to walk unaided and for the first time feel comfort at a level that we all take for granted.

Cerebral Palsy is treated in the UK with a combination of Botox, Physio and eventually muscle/tendon lengthening surgery. However in other countries SDR is the first procedure of choice, therefore ridding the child of spasticity at an early age and allowing normal muscle/bone growth.