The application of behavior modification techniques to cerebral palsy habilitation combines behaviorist psychology and physical therapy. In working together, physical therapists and behaviorists have a great deal to offer children and adults with cerebral palsy. I present a behaviorist perspective on how cerebral palsy affects an individual's interactions with the environment and how the enviro...

Cerebral palsy is the most common motor disability in childhood. In current paper, we first report our clinical data regarding administration of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) transplantation in treatment of cerebral palsy. A 5-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was treated with multiple times of intravenous and intrathecal administration of MSCs derived from her young sister and w...

OBJECTIVE To obtain better insight into the health issues of young adults with cerebral palsy. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SUBJECTS Two data sources were used: 54 adults with cerebral palsy (age range 25-36 years) and 48 physicians (members of the Netherlands Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine). METHODS Adults with cerebral palsy participated in a physical examination and a semi-...

BACKGROUND Children with cerebral palsy show dysfunctional postural control which interferes with their functional performance and daily-life activities. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to identify the effect of a 3D supporting garment on trunk postural control and interjoint coordination during gait in children with bilateral cerebral palsy. METHODS We analyzed tridimensional trunk moti...

OBJECTIVE To determine the extent of cerebral palsy attributable to adverse obstetric events, and estimate the lifetime mortality and morbidity expectations of these individuals relative to age-matched members of the UK general population. DESIGN Simulation model. SETTING UK POPULATION All projected live births during 2014. METHODS Using published data regarding the incidence and aetiolog...

The main goal of the present study was to characterise the pragmatic abilities of French children with cerebral palsy through their understanding of irony and other people's mental states. We predicted that children with cerebral palsy would have difficulty understanding false-belief and ironic remarks, due to the executive dysfunction that accompanies the motor disorders of cerebral palsy. We ...

This paper aims to design and implement the Speech recognition system for Cerebral Palsy using Matlab (GUI). Speech recognition system for Cerebral Palsy is a system that compares the voice from the Cerebral Palsy person as input with the reference voice in data base by using some algorithms. This work was based on the zerocross-rate (ZCR) that use for the end point detection, Mel-Frequency Cep...

Problem/Condition Cerebral palsy is classified as a neuromuscular disorder with the main symptoms being motor, postural, neurological, and muscle tone impairments. This disorder is caused two different ways. Congenital cerebral palsy is caused by injury or illness at or before birth; this is the most common form. Acquired cerebral palsy is caused by an injury that occurs in early childhood. Cer...

spasticity is one of the common complications in upper motor neuron lesions and without appropriate treatment it causes disturbances in movement pattern. assessments of patients are effective in patient`s management. modified ashworth scale (mas) is one of the criteria in qualitative assessment of spasticity, and there are lots of controversies about its validity. the purpose of this study is t...