Cerebral palsy is a term used for a group of nonprogressive, incurable brain disorders that affect motor control. There are four different types―spastic, dyskinetic/athetoid, ataxic, and mixed―with spastic being the most common. The main symptom of spastic cerebral palsy is stiff muscles. The subtypes are categorized by the number of limbs affected and the quality of movement. The affected limb...

BACKGROUND Cause specific research on death certification in chronic disease has rarely involved cerebral palsy. AIMS To evaluate cause of death information in people known to have cerebral palsy by: describing the cause of death distribution; determining case ascertainment using death certification as the data source; and analysing the choice of wording and its arrangement in the "cause of d...

CONTEXT Lack of a valid classification of severity of cerebral palsy and the absence of longitudinal data on which to base an opinion have made it difficult to consider prognostic issues accurately. OBJECTIVE To describe patterns of gross motor development of children with cerebral palsy by severity, using longitudinal observations, as a basis for prognostic counseling with parents and for pl...

Children with cerebral palsy participate less in everyday activities than children in the general populations. During adolescence, rapid physical and psychological changes occur which may be more difficult for adolescents with impairments. Within the European SPARCLE project we measured frequency of participation of adolescents with cerebral palsy by administering the Questionnaire of Young Peo...

Health status of children with cerebral palsy living in Europe: a multi-centre study. [4] Bøttcher L. Children with spastic cerebral palsy, their cognitive functioning, and social participation: a review.cess of children with cerebral palsy to the physical, social and attitudinal environment they need: a cross-sectional European study.cess of children with cerebral palsy to the physical, social...

BACKGROUND Cerebral palsy is more common in twins than singletons. Among twins, if one twin suffers a fetal death or dies in infancy, the prevalence of cerebral palsy in the surviving co-twin is considerably increased, and those from like-sex pairs are particularly at high risk. AIM To compare birthweight specific cerebral palsy prevalence in like-sex and unlike-sex twins where both twins sur...

The authors compared the outcomes of 17 children aged 7 to 15 years with DYT1 dystonia or cerebral palsy following deep brain stimulation. While patients with cerebral palsy presented with significantly greater motor disability than the DYT1 cohort at baseline, both groups demonstrated improvement at 1 year (cerebral palsy = 24%; DYT1 = 6%). The group as a whole demonstrated significant improve...

one of the important and usual missed causes of pediatric traumas is child abuse. this ominous phenomenon, which can be presented physically, psychologically, sexually, and emotionally has grown significantly in recent years. many children are not diagnosed in the early stages of evaluation. battered child syndrome is used to describe the clinical condition of the child serious physical abuse b...

how to cite this article: wilson md. animal models of cerebral palsy: hypoxic brain injury in the newborn. iran j child neurol. spring 2015; 9(2):9-16. abstract objective hypoxic insults are implicated in the spectrum of fetal disorders, including cerebral palsy (cp). in view of the major contribution of intrapartum risk factors and prematurity to subsequent neurological morbidity and mortality...

abstract objectives, the purpose of this research was to evaluate of the intra-rater and inter-raters reliability of the 10 meter walk test (10 mwt) in 30 adults with spastic cerebral palsy (cp) with subgroup analyses in gross motor function classification system (gmfcs). material & methods, participants  (19 men, 11 women; mean age 27 y and 9 mo) with gmfcs levels below iv (i, ii, and iii) non...