Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tendon transfer surgery in children with upper-extremity cerebral palsy provided greater improvement compared ...

Athetoid cerebral palsy is a type of cerebral palsy that causes uncontrollable muscle movements. It’s present in infancy or childhood and may be more severe than other types of cerebral palsy.

Though rare, cerebral palsy can sometimes cause hypotonic symptoms, or chronic muscle weakness. Treatments such as physical therapy or surgery can help improve mobility. Cerebral palsy is a physical ...

-- Just shy of his fourth birthday, Aubrey Mazingo crawls to where he wants to go in the small Mobile apartment he shares with his mother, Carla, and his brother, Ladarrell Fairley, 13 months.

Cerebral palsy is a term used to describe a set of neurological conditions that affect movement. It is the most common form of childhood disability. It affects around 764,000 individuals in the United ...

Defining cerebral palsy only as a childhood condition fails to acknowledge the many adults living with the disease. In the United States, there are currently more adults living with cerebral palsy ...

Signs of cerebral palsy in a newborn may include abnormal movements and stiff or floppy muscles. Doctors usually diagnose the condition when a child is older. Symptoms of cerebral palsy can first ...

Cerebral palsy is the most common lifelong physical disability, affecting an estimated 18 million people worldwide. Our recent research at the University of Surrey shows that misconceptions about ...

Figure 1: Gross Motor Function Classification System expanded and revised for children with cerebral palsy, 6–12 years of age. What links all people with cerebral palsy are the clinical and functional ...

No two cases of cerebral palsy are exactly alike, and that includes differences in the complications and other conditions people with cerebral palsy may have. For example, urinary incontinence is ...