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Treatment of spasticity in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy in Northern Europe: a CP-North registry study

BMC Neurology, 2021
Background Spasticity is present in more than 80% of the population with cerebral palsy (CP). The aim of this study was to describe and compare the use of three spasticity reducing methods; Botulinum toxin-A therapy (BTX-A), Selective dorsal rhizotomy ...
Gunnar Hägglund, Sandra Julsen Hollung, Matti Ahonen, Guro L. Andersen, Guðbjörg Eggertsdóttir, Mark S. Gaston, Reidun Jahnsen, Ira Jeglinsky-Kankainen, Kirsten Nordbye-Nielsen, Ilaria Tresoldi, Ann I. Alriksson-Schmidt   +10 more
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A validation and acceptability study of cognitive testing using switch and eye-gaze control technologies for children with motor and speech impairments: A protocol paper

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Despite the importance of knowing the cognitive capabilities of children with neurodevelopmental conditions, less than one-third of children with cerebral palsy participate in standardized assessments.
Petra Karlsson, Ingrid Honan, Seth Warschausky, Jacqueline N. Kaufman, Georgina Henry, Candice Stephenson, Annabel Webb, Alistair McEwan, Nadia Badawi   +8 more
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Linkage of Routinely-Collected Maternity Data with a Cerebral Palsy Register: Comparison of baseline maternal characteristics in offspring with and without cerebral palsy.

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objectives This feasibility and hypothesis generating study aimed to compare maternal characteristics between pregnancies in which at least one infant received a diagnosis of CP (case pregnancies) and pregnancies in which all infants did not receive a ...
Lisa Kent, Claire Kerr, Karen McConnell, Oliver Perra, Kelly-Ann Eastwood   +4 more
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Burden of caregivers of children with cerebral palsy: an intersectional analysis of gender, poverty, stigma, and public policy

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Caregivers of children with cerebral palsy suffer from a substantial psychosocial burden. However, there is a scarcity of documentation of the various sources of burden in low- and middle-income settings.
K. Vadivelan, P. Sekar, S Shri Sru, V. Gopichandran   +3 more
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Early, Accurate Diagnosis and Early Intervention in Cerebral Palsy Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment

JAMA pediatrics, 2017
Importance Cerebral palsy describes the most common physical disability in childhood and occurs in 1 in 500 live births. Historically, the diagnosis has been made between age 12 and 24 months but now can be made before 6 months’ corrected age. Objectives
I. Novak, C. Morgan, L. Adde, J. Blackman, R. Boyd, Janice E. Brunstrom-Hernandez, G. Cioni, D. Damiano, J. Darrah, A. Eliasson, L. D. de Vries, C. Einspieler, M. Fahey, D. Fehlings, D. Ferriero, L. Fetters, S. Fiori, H. Forssberg, A. Gordon, S. Greaves, A. Guzzetta, M. Hadders‐Algra, R. Harbourne, A. Kakooza-Mwesige, P. Karlsson, L. Krumlinde-Sundholm, B. Latal, A. Loughran-Fowlds, N. Maitre, S. Mcintyre, G. Noritz, L. Pennington, D. Romeo, R. Shepherd, A. Spittle, Marelle Thornton, J. Valentine, K. Walker, Robert White, N. Badawi   +39 more
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Cerebral Palsy Part II: Treatment of Cerebral Palsy

South African Journal of Physiotherapy, 1971
No abstract available.
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Cognitive functioning in children with cerebral palsy

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2020
Children with cerebral palsy (CP) have an increased risk of cognitive impairments. This narrative review of the literature discusses assessment of cognition in children with CP, presents the most salient characteristics of cognitive functioning ...
K. Stadskleiv
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A review of speech therapy services in ten cerebral palsy schools in the Republic of South Africa

South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1974
Information on speech therapy services at ten Cerebral Palsy Schools in South Africa was obtained by means of a questionnaire. The results compared the numbers of children receiving treatment on an out-patient and in-patient basis; the percentage of ...
Audrey Shavell
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Stakeholder consensus for decision making in eye-gaze control technology for children, adolescents and adults with cerebral palsy service provision: findings from a Delphi study

BMC Neurology, 2021
Background Limited research exists to guide clinical decisions about trialling, selecting, implementing and evaluating eye-gaze control technology. This paper reports on the outcomes of a Delphi study that was conducted to build international stakeholder
Petra Karlsson, Tom Griffiths, Michael T. Clarke, Elegast Monbaliu, Kate Himmelmann, Saranda Bekteshi, Abigail Allsop, René Pereksles, Claire Galea, Margaret Wallen   +9 more
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Mutations disrupting neuritogenesis genes confer risk for cerebral palsy

Nature Genetics, 2020
In addition to commonly associated environmental factors, genomic factors may cause cerebral palsy. We performed whole-exome sequencing of 250 parent–offspring trios, and observed enrichment of damaging de novo mutations in cerebral palsy cases.
S. Jin, Sara A. Lewis, S. Bakhtiari, Xue Zeng, M. Sierant, S. Shetty, Sandra M. Nordlie, Auréliane Elie, M. Corbett, Bethany Y Norton, C. V. van Eyk, S. Haider, Brandon S. Guida, H. Magee, James Liu, S. Pastore, J. Vincent, Janice E. Brunstrom-Hernandez, Antigone Papavasileiou, M. Fahey, J. Berry, K. Harper, Chongchen Zhou, Junhui Zhang, Boyang Li, Hongyu Zhao, Jennifer Heim, D. L. Webber, M. Frank, Lei Xia, Yiran Xu, Dengna Zhu, Bohao Zhang, Amar H. Sheth, James R. Knight, C. Castaldi, Irina R. Tikhonova, F. López-Giráldez, B. Keren, S. Whalen, J. Buratti, D. Doummar, M. Cho, K. Retterer, F. Millan, Yangong Wang, J. Waugh, Lance H Rodan, Julie S. Cohen, A. Fatemi, A. Lin, J. Phillips, T. Feyma, S. MacLennan, Spencer Vaughan, Kylie E. Crompton, S. Reid, D. Reddihough, Qing Shang, Chao Gao, I. Novak, N. Badawi, Yana A. Wilson, S. Mcintyre, S. Mane, Xiaoyang Wang, D. Amor, D. Zarnescu, Q. Lu, Qinghe Xing, Changlian Zhu, K. Bilguvar, S. Padilla-Lopez, R. Lifton, J. Gécz, A. Maclennan, M. Kruer   +76 more
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