Objectives: To investigate the psychosocial burden among mothers and its relationship to quality of life for cerebral palsy children in Babylon Province/ Iraq. Methods: A descriptive correlational study was conducted on a sample of 150 mothers who had child with cerebral palsy. A non-probability sampling strategy was used to choose a purposive sample of 150 mothers. According to the Babel Heal...

Currently, much attention is paid to the study of quality life patients suffering from chronic pathology. The closely related patient’s awareness confidence and well-being in many areas, not only with perception their physical condition, but also other aspects including social interactions, emotional experiences, spiritual values areas. Cerebral palsy a severe disabling disease presence motor d...

We investigated whether motor planning problems in people with Hemiparetic Cerebral Palsy (HCP) are paralleled by impaired ability to use Motor Imagery (MI). While some studies have shown that individuals with HCP can solve a mental rotation task, it was not clear if they used MI or Visual Imagery (VI). In the present study, motor planning and MI were examined in individuals with right HCP (n=1...

Coordination of reaching with the impaired and non-impaired arm in 10 children with spastic hemiparetic cerebral palsy (SHCP) was examined in a stationary ball and moving ball context. Kinematic data on trunk, arm, and wrist movements, and coordination patterns between joint angles of elbow, shoulder, and trunk, were analyzed to determine how reaching was influenced by impairment and object mot...

In the present event-related potential (ERP) study we investigated the neural and temporal dynamics of motor imagery in participants with right-sided hemiparetic cerebral palsy (HCP; n = 10) and in left-handed control participants (n = 10). A mental rotation task was used in which participants were required to judge the laterality of hand pictures. At a behavioral level participants with HCP we...

Parental age and birth order were studied in 251 patients with cerebral palsy. No parental age or birth order effects were observed in spastic quadriplegia or diplegia, but a paternal age effect was detected in those with athetoid/dystonic cerebral palsy and congenital hemiplegia. These observations indicate that some cases of athetoid/dystonic or hemiplegic cerebral palsy might arise by fresh ...

Parenting a child with cerebral palsy is at least as challenging as parenting a child with typical development. Caregivers of children with cerebral palsy are strongly influenced by the needs of their children. Although the body of literature addressing parent stress in families with a child with cerebral palsy is not large, the growing evidence has been supplemented and illuminated by the work...

Chairman Perlstein.’ In neuromuscular disabilities there are many problems to consider. However, about half of these comprise that group of diseases we know as cerebral palsy. We will start by orientating ourselves toward cerebral palsy, and in the discussion taking up the question of differential diagnosis and related subjects. Cerebral palsy is not a single disease but a group of conditions w...

Children with Cerebral Palsy require all the usual health care recommended for any child. Parents maybe require instructional practices related to safety environment, feeding programs, immunization, hearing, vision, and dental screening and use of assistive devices. Caregiver plays as essential role in the early identification and observation of growth patterns of children with Cerebral Palsy; ...