Successful surgery can increase independent motor function and improve gait and range of motion. It can also correct deformities in children with cerebral palsy.

Surgery is used to:

• Relieve stiff muscles
• Correct spinal curvatures (scoliosis)
• Reduce tremors
• Correct foot deformities
• Improve posture
• Improve balance and coordination
• Relieve pain
• Correct fixed joints and tendons
• Prevent spinal deformities
• Free permanently tightened muscles (contractures)
• Prevent hip dislocation