To make children who may lose some basic skills to accomplish walking or may have delayed in walking development is a very important issue. Gait in these children may exhibit the following characteristics: poor motor control, poor balance, muscle strength insufficiently, and muscle incoordination. Their mobility may depend upon the use of assistive devices such as canes, walkers, etc. These aid...

Background One of the most common causes of severe physical disability in childhood is cerebral palsy (CP). Mobility is one of the most important functions to fulfill the activities of daily living. We aimed to determine the effectiveness of cold application to improve ...

Background: The main objective of this study was to systematically review the reported potency of cord blood stem cells in treating patients with neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy.  Methods: PubMed, Scopus, and Cochrane were searched thoroughly on September 2016 using the following search terms: “Umbilical cord blood stem cells” AND “development” AND “cerebral palsy” to find articl...

introduction: many of study show decrease of quality of life in mothers of children with cerebral palsy due to care activity of their child but the researchers less pay attention to the decrease of mother’s quality of life in relationship with child-related factors like walking ability in children with cerebral palsy, so the aim of this study was tocomparing the quality of life of mothers with ...

Spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (SDCP) is a common type of cerebral palsy (CP), which presents as a group of motor-impairment syndromes. Previous conventional MRI studies have reported abnormal structural changes in SDCP, such as periventricular leucomalacia. However, there are roughly 27.8% SDCP patients presenting normal appearance in conventional MRI, which were considered as occult SDCP. In...

Cerebral Palsy is the most common chronic motor disorder of childhood, that affecting approximately 3 infants per 1000 live-births. The risk of brain injuries that potentially cause Cerebral Palsy has amplified with increasing in survival rates for preterm infants. In addition Cerebral Palsy has a huge economic impact, to immeasurable health, social, and psychological problems that affected chi...