The clinical spectrum of Cerebral palsy (CP) can differ in various places depending upon the knowledge people and resources for prevention, diagnosis management. Although studied extensively high-resource countries, adequate data related to CP from resource-constraint settings are lacking.
 aim: present study is a descriptive done on profiles, aetiology, comorbidities.
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Question: What is the effect of loaded sit-to-stand resistance exercise on motor activity, muscle strength, and walking speed and efficiency for children with mild spastic diplegia (cerebral palsy)? Design: Randomised, controlled trial with blinded outcome assessment. Setting: Home-based rehabilitation program with laboratory-based assessments, in Taiwan. Participants: Twenty-four children aged...

The article provides general information on botulinum therapy in treating spastic forms of cerebral palsy; a review of modern botulinum toxin A drugs’ injection precision control methods at spasticity and other pathologic states is given; advantages and disadvantages of each injection control method are analyzed in detail. Special attention is paid to the substantiated choice of the injection c...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the presence of abnormal oral reflexes and speech sound production in children with severe cerebral palsy. MATERIALS & METHODS Seven oral reflexes such as, rooting, mouth-opening, biting, chewing, lip, tongue, and suckling were examined in 52Persian-speaking monolingual children with spastic cerebral palsy (ages 5...

Cerebral palsy is caused by a static lesion to the cerebral motor cortex that is acquired before, at, or within 5 years of birth. Multiple causes for the condition exist and include cerebral anoxia, cerebral hemorrhage, infection, and genetic syndromes. Cerebral palsy is commonly classified according to the type of movement problem that is present (spastic or athetoid) or according to the body ...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to determine whether strength training programs for hip extensors and knee extensors improve gross motor function of children with cerebral palsy in Myanmar. [Subjects and Methods] Forty children (25 boys and 15 girls, mean age: 6.07 ± 2.74 years) from National Rehabilitation Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar, who had been diagnosed with spastic diplegic cerebral...

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...

This study was performed to check if recommendations based on three-dimensional gait analysis (3DGA) are associated with better postoperative outcomes in patients with cerebral palsy (CP). Thirty-eight patients who underwent orthopedic surgery and assessment at the Gait Analysis Laboratory were evaluated retrospectively. The patients were divided in four groups according to the agreement betwee...

Hand function in children with cerebral palsy after upper-limb tendon transfer and muscle release. Dev Med Child Neurol 1998; 40: 612–21. 14. Dahlin LB, Komoto Tufvesson Y, Salgeback S. Surgery of the spastic hand in cerebral palsy. Improvement in stereognosis and hand function after surgery. J Hand Surg 1998; 23: 334–39. 15. Matsuo T, Matsuo A, Hajime T, Fukumoto S, Chen W, Iwamoto Y. Release ...