OBJECTIVE To compare the chronological age and bone age among cerebral palsy patients in the outpatient clinic and its correlation with the type of neurological involvement, gender and functional status. METHODS 401 patients with spastic cerebral palsy, and ages ranging from three months to 20 years old, submitted to radiological examination for bone age and analyzed by two independent observ...

BACKGROUND: Cerebral palsy is a disease caused by perinatal lesion of the central nervous system (CNS) characterized violation static and dynamic functions. The combination speech, motor, mental disorders indicate need for comprehensive approach to treatment. Numerous studies have been devoted functional disorder restoration orthopedic correction in children with cerebral palsy. Among publicati...

PURPOSE One of the aims of the treatment in ambulant cerebral palsy (CP) patients is improvement of gait. The level of gait pathology is assessed by instrumented gait analysis, including surface electromyography. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation of the abnormality level of the gait and the co-contraction of the agonist-antagonist muscles, and relation between symmetry left ...

OBJECTIVES We analyzed electroclinical features and evolution in nine patients with hemiparetic cerebral palsy associated with SE. PATIENTS AND METHODS Nine patients with mean age 12.3 years and a follow up from 1 to 11 years were studied, analyzing etiology, neurological examination, psychometric evaluation, age at onset and semiology of epileptic seizures, EEGs and neuro-radiological findin...

BACKGROUND We sought to determine, in very preterm infants, whether elevated perinatal erythropoietin (EPO) concentrations are associated with increased risks of indicators of brain damage, and whether this risk differs by the co-occurrence or absence of intermittent or sustained systemic inflammation (ISSI). METHODS Protein concentrations were measured in blood collected from 786 infants bor...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can be used as an assessment or intervention to evaluate or influence brain activity in children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy (CP) commonly caused by perinatal stroke. This communication report analyzed data from two clinical trials using TMS to assess corticospinal excitability in children and young adults with hemiparetic CP. The results of this comm...

Virtual reality (VR) therapy is a new, neurorehabilitation intervention aimed at enhancing motor performance in children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy (CP). This case report investigated the effects of VR therapy on cortical reorganization and associated motor function in an 8-year-old male with hemiparetic CP. Cortical activation and associated motor development were measured before and afte...

Abstract Background Adaptive seating is commonly used as an intervention method to enhance postural control. The aim of this study investigate the effect using therapy ball a seat alternative typical chair on grasping and visual motor integration in children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy. For aim, thirty palsy from both sexes were included study. ages ranged 3 6 years old. degree spasticity w...