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August 02,2010

How Does Spastic Cerebral Palsy Affect Muscles and Joints?

Spastic cerebral palsy is one of the most common forms of cerebral palsy, and accounts for nearly 80 percent of all cerebral palsy cases. Those that suffer from this specific classification generally have stiff muscles that often stay in an extended contracted state, and as a result, normal moveme

August 02,2010

Hand Surgery for a Child With Cerebral Palsy?

We recently received this question via email: “My daughter isn’t able to use her hand very well. She can bend her elbow well enough and move her shoulder, but the hand is not able to perform finger-to-finger grasping movements. I have looked everywhere for a doctor who specializes in HAN

August 02,2010

Dorsal Rhizotomy Helps Girl With Cerebral Palsy

Cassie Merrill showed signs of problems early on in her life. She did not begin sitting up on her own at six months like most babies do, instead she crawled on the floor, dragging her legs behind her. When she did begin to walk, the tension in her calf muscles caused her to walk on […]

August 02,2010

How Does Dance Therapy Help Cerebral Palsy Patients?

Recreational therapy is used to treat children with a number of disabilities and conditions, including cerebral palsy. Physical, behavioral and occupational therapies are all important for the development of children with Cerebral Palsy and recreational therapy works hand in hand with these. Recreat

August 02,2010

What Are The Childhood Symptoms of Cerebral Palsy?

A parent or caretaker can usually be the first person to notice an infant’s early symptoms that would suggest they have cerebral palsy. At first, a parent may often dismiss or repress the idea that anything is wrong because they don’t want to believe it. Parents will often chalk up their

August 02,2010

Cerebral Palsy is a Preventable Birth Injury

The CDC has released statistics concerning Cerebral Palsy, which estimate one of every 280 births will result in cerebral palsy. This number has only gone up and up over the past few years. Cerebral palsy is one of the most common neurological disabilities found in newborn children. Cerebral palsy�

August 01,2010

Special Cerebral Palsy Treatment Developed in Shanghai

I read a fascinating report in the Shanghai Daily recently. In it, they describe a cerebral palsy treatment that combines both Chinese and Western methods of therapy. The method was developed by Lu Shunling, a woman who has cerebral palsy herself. She claims that it has already had a dramatic ef

July 30,2010

DynoVox Used for Cerebral Palsy Patient

A new communication device known as a DynaVox is helping cerebral palsy patients who have difficulty speaking. The device has pre-recorded messages that play when you touch buttons on a screen. For one cerebral palsy patient, the DynaVox has proven to be a most-useful device. 25-year old Jennifer

July 30,2010

The Most Successful Treatments for Cerebral Palsy

Improvements in the treatment of cerebral palsy are becoming greater as science moves forward. While there are many types of treatment options available to children with cerebral palsy, three treatment procedures in particular have shown great promise: Botox injections, the Baclofen pump, and a sur

July 30,2010

Euro Therapy A Hit With 12 Year Old

Ethan Roggatz has made brilliant strides in his cerebral palsy therapy recently. On Father’s Day, he managed to ride his bike between a small park in his home town, to a near-by drive inn. His mother says that a year earlier, he would have struggled to make such a ride. “We had to push