What is CereCare?

CereCare Wellness Centre Shanghai is a residential facility offering a world-first combination of Lu’s acupressure, physiotherapy and education to young children suffering from Cerebral Palsy.

Mission Statement

To help children with cerebral palsy to live productive and independent lives.

About the Founder – Mdm Lieu Shun Ling

The combination of treatments is provided to CereCare’s children was pioneered by a CereCare’s founder, a Shanghainese woman named Lieu Shun Ling. Ms Lieu Shun Ling was born with CP in Shanghai in 1934. As a result of her disability, she was incapable of taking care of herself as a child and was thus overprotected. She was not diagnosed until she reached the age of 18, after which she was sent to HK for treatment. In Hong Kong , between the period of 1953-1956, she endured all kinds of treatments that did not work. She found the “Traditional Chinese Acupressure” to be the most effective method that helped her. She decided to return to Shanghai in 1956 as she felt that there are more good acupressurists in China. The seven masters that assisted in her healing also became her teachers. At the age of 30, she was able to walked out the front door on her own for the first time in her life. Ms Lieu decided then to learn on how to treat CP. Being unable to attend university due to her affliction, she took correspondence courses offered by Television University and read Western and Chinese medicine. As she was unable to write legibly, even though she passed her oral finals with flying colors, she was denied her diploma. Over the years, she developed her own special technique of “Acupressure Treatment” designed to empower people afflicted with CP to have some form of normalcy in their lives.

Ms Lieu has exceptional empathy and compassion for the handicapped. With the support of her parents, she started working with handicapped people in 1980 in association with the Red Cross and starting her own center for handicapped people in 1985. After reading a newspaper article in the newspaper about how a father walked out from his family after learning that his wife gave birth to a CP baby, she decided to concentrate on children with CP. Using money left to her by her parents, she started a clinic in 1992. She remodeled the garage and built an annex in the garden and started a free clinic and physiotherapy center. Over the years, she has treated dozens of children with astounding results. She has been honored numerous times by the city of Shanghai and received frequent press coverage. To further her commitment to children with CP, Ms Lieu sold the house left to her by her parents, brother and sisters and founded CereCare which opened in November of 2003.

Awards for Lieu Shun Ling