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Cerebral palsy

2013
Cerebral palsy affects movement and posture causing activity limitation; it is a lifelong condition, with foreseeable complications. There are evidence-based interventions that will prevent participation restriction. Childhood interventions are generally delivered within multidisciplinary rehabilitation programs.
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Cerebral Palsy

Seminars in Perinatology, 2008
Extreme prematurity confers about a 100-fold increase in the risk of cerebral palsy (CP), relative to birth at term gestation. Although CP is primarily a disorder of movement, many children with this disorder have other impairments which may affect their quality of life and life expectancy.
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Epidemiology of cerebral palsy

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2006
The term cerebral palsy refers to a range of clinical symptoms, with related service requirements, resulting from lesions or abnormalities in the brain arising early in life. It is not a diagnosis; aetiology and pathology are variable. This article discusses the definition and differential classification of cerebral palsy, describes trends in its ...
Eve, Blair, Linda, Watson
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Cerebral Palsy in Birmingham

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 1967
SUMMARYOf the 441 children born in Birmingham between Jan. I, 1948 and Dec. 31, 1963 and registered with the Midland Spastic Association as suffering from cerebral palsy, 401 are included in this study.The annual incidence per 1,000 live births varied between 1 ‐3 and 1 ‐9.
M I, Griffiths, N M, Barrett
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Familial Cerebral Palsy

European Neurology, 1952
Abstract 1. 1. Some of the definitions of cerebral palsy accepted in this paper do not exclude hereditary and familial cases. 2. 2. Prenatal causes are occupying a steadily growing part in the etiology of cerebral palsy syndromes. 3. 3.
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Origins of Cerebral Palsy

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1989
Analyses were undertaken to determine the causes of cerebral palsy in a prospective study of 43,437 full-term children. Presumed causes were found for about 71% of the 34 quadriplegic and 40% of the 116 nonquadriplegic patients with cerebral palsy.
R L, Naeye   +3 more
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Interferons and cerebral palsy

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1999
To explore the association of neonatal interferons (IFNs) with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) and with other measured substances.Assays of archived neonatal blood of 31 predominantly term children with CP and 65 children in a control group were obtained by recycling immunoaffinity chromatography with laser-enhanced fluorescence and chemiluminescence ...
J K, Grether   +3 more
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Hypnosis in cerebral palsy

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 1962
Abstract Hypnosin was used with 19 cerebral palsy patients to determine its value in the treatment of this condition. Four patients demonstrated definite benefit; however, in general, the results were not remarkable. The positive results noted in four patients were: (1) improved epeech and writing ability; (2) improved walking ability; (3) decreased of
W H, SPANKUS, L G, FREEMAN
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BIOMECHANICS IN CEREBRAL PALSY

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, 1983
Normal gait is dependent upon a coordinated series of events which moves the body through space with the minimal energy expenditure. Any neuromuscular abnormality which interferes with this pattern and results in loss of coordination will give rise to increased energy requirements.
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CEREBRAL PALSY

Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1955
Nearly a century has elapsed since Little's description of the crippling condition which has since come to be known as cerebral palsy. Little, an orthopedist venturing on obstetrical ground, considered that the disease was usually due to asphyxia associated with dystocia and prematurity.* Sigmund Freud categorized these as "Little's factors" in ...
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