Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2016 Cerebral palsy is the most common cause of childhood-onset, lifelong physical disability in most countries, affecting about 1 in 500 neonates with an estimated prevalence of 17 million people worldwide. Cerebral palsy is not a disease entity in the traditional sense but a clinical description of children who share features of a non-progressive brain ...
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Physical Activity for Individuals with Cerebral Palsy [PDF]
, 2021 Despite the fact that cerebral palsy affects the balance, coordination, muscles, and movements of individuals, adaptive sports can be used to help individuals with cerebral palsy stay physically active.
Law, Jonathon, Pennington, Colin G.
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Cerebral palsy in children born after assisted reproductive technology in Norway: Risk, prevalence, and clinical characteristics [PDF]
, 2023 Introduction The aim was to investigate the risk, prevalence, and clinical characteristics of cerebral palsy among children born after assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Norway.
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Do lycra garments improve function and movement in children with cerebral palsy? [PDF]
, 2010 The mother of a 5-year-old boy with athetoid cerebral palsy complains of difficulties putting his Lycra suit on each day. She is keen to know if it actually helps improve his function and movement.
Coghill, J. E., Simkiss, Douglas E.
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Analysis of the Needs of Parents who Have Cerebral Palsy Children Reviewed from the Family Counseling [PDF]
, 2020 Parents who have children with cerebral palsy sometimes experience hopeless caring. Some parents feel shocked and cannot accept the fact that their child has a disability.
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Comparison of muscle strength, sprint power and aerobic capacity in adults with and without cerebral palsy [PDF]
, 2012 Objective: To compare: (i) muscle strength, sprint power and maximal aerobic capacity; and (ii) the correlations between these variables in adults with and without cerebral palsy. Design: Cross-sectional study. Subjects: Twenty adults with and 24 without
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Genetic and clinical contributions to cerebral palsy: A multi-variable analysis [PDF]
, 2013 All authors are contributors to the Australian Collaborative Cerebral Palsy Research Group The definitive version is available at www.wileyonlinelibrary.comAimThis study aims to examine single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associations with cerebral ...
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The Association of Cerebral Palsy with Other Disability in Children with Perinatal Arterial Ischemic Stroke [PDF]
, 2007 The association of cerebral palsy with other disabilities in children with perinatal stroke has not been well-studied. We examined this association in 111 children with perinatal stroke: 67 with neonatal presentation, and 44 with delayed presentation ...
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Cranial Ultrasound Lesions in the NICU Predict Cerebral Palsy at Age 2 Years in Children Born at Extremely Low Gestational Age [PDF]
, 2009 Our prospective cohort study of extremely low gestational age newborns evaluated the association of neonatal head ultrasound abnormalities with cerebral palsy at age 2 years.
Allred, Elizabeth N. +20 more
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Does the risk of cerebral palsy increase or decrease with increasing gestational age? [PDF]
, 2003 BACKGROUND: It is generally accepted that the risk of cerebral palsy decreases with increasing gestational age of live born infants. However, recent studies have shown that cerebral palsy often has prenatal antecedents including congenital malformations,
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