Cerebral palsy refers to a clinical syndrome of nonprogressive motor deficits (usually spastic weakness, uncommonly choreoathetosis, rarely ataxia) of central origin with onset from early infancy. In this issue of the Journal, Truwit et al describe the MR findings in 40 patients with the clinical diagnosis of cerebral palsy (1). The purposes of their retrospective study were to define the anato...

Purpose of the study. Reveal typical disorders nutritional status and identify characteristic physical development patients with cerebral palsy. Materials methods. The features 128 children various forms palsy 20 healthy aged 3 to 14 years were studied. Physical was assessed using standard public anthropometric parameters: weight, height, measurement circumference upper lower extremities, deter...

Compromised action performance is one of the most characteristic features of children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy (USCP). Current rehabilitation efforts predominantly aim to improve the capacity and performance of the affected arm. Recent evidence, however, suggests that compromised motor planning may also negatively affect performance of activities of daily living. In this paper we ...

Abstract Introduction: Children with cerebral palsy (CP) have been found to present visual perceptual impairments (VPI). Research indicates differences in VPI various subtypes of CP. However, deficits children CP has not investigated terms occupational therapy assessment and treatment a South African context. The purpose this study was determine the specific learners ages 4-18 years attending s...

Introduction Multilevel surgery is an established treatment in children with gait disorders due to spastic cerebral palsy [1, 2]. The short and mid-term benefits of well planned and executed procedures are documented. However, we do not know how these patients function as adults. Furthermore there is almost no information on this sort of treatment in adults with cerebral palsy [3]. The purpose ...

Abstract Background Children with spastic diplegia experience gait abnormalities and problems caused by deficits in balance, motor control, spasticity. Abnormal pelvic inclination is common patients which may result poor balance. Purpose This study was conducted to investigate the relation between standing balance children diplegia. Subjects methods Thirty diplegic cerebral palsy from both sexe...

objective epilepsy occurs in 12 % to 90 % of children with cerebral palsy (cp). however its clinical course is not well defined. this investigation was undertaken to study and determine the characteristics and prevalence of epilepsy in children with cerebral palsy. materials & methods of 133 children with cerebral palsy, seen between 1998 and 2001, in the pediatric neurology clinic of the imam ...

The aim of the study is to investigate whether the net nondimensional oxygen utilization scheme is able to detect postoperative improvement in the energy cost of walking in children with cerebral palsy and to compare it with a body mass normalization scheme. We evaluated 10 children with spastic cerebral palsy before and 9 months after equinus deformity surgery. Participants walked at a given s...

753 August 2016, Vol. 106, No. 8 Spasticity is defined as an increase in muscle tone that is elicited by a velocity-dependent stretching of the muscles. It is part of the upper motor neuron syndrome of muscle weakness and is worst in antigravity muscles.[1,2] The most common causes of spasticity are: • cerebral palsy (spasticity is a dominant feature in 80% of all patients with cerebral palsy)[...

The purpose of this study was to analyze associations between prenatal factors and cerebral palsy in a geographically based cohort of very low birth weight infants. Cases (n = 80) and controls had birth weights of 500-1,500 g and were born in 1978-1989, to a resident of one of 17 counties in northwest North Carolina. Medical records were reviewed for data about prenatal and neonatal factors. As...