Spastic cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common type of CP. Up to 80% of all individuals with cerebral palsy suffer from some degree of spasticity. Spasticity adversely affects muscles and joints of the extremities, causing abnormal movements, and it is especially harmful in growing children. Several methods have been developed and used to assess spasticity. The most commonly used test in clinic...

This paper proposes a simple method of hand skill assessment in children that can be useful in clinical practice. A reduced 5-hole version of Annett's Peg Moving Task was used to quantify hand skill bilaterally in 435 normally developing preschool and school-children, and adolescents aged 3-18 years from Brazil. The cross-cultural validity of the normative data obtained in Brazil was verified i...

Cerebral palsy (CP) affects approximately 1-2/1000 births each year, making it one of the most common motor disorders amongst children (Paneth & Hong, 2006). Cerebral palsy has recently been defined as an umbrella term that describes a movement or posture disorder that is caused by a non-progressive interference, lesion, or abnormality in the immature brain. It is a permanent, yet unchanging di...

Objectives: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a static encephalopathy with abnormal reflexes that cause motor developmental delay. In addition to conventional methods, complementary medicine like homeopathy has been used in treatment of neuro-developmental disorders. This study has been done to determine the effect of adding homeopathic treatment to rehabilitation on abnormal reflexes of children with spa...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of Therapeutic Instrument Music Performance (TIMP) for fine motor exercises in adults with cerebral palsy (CP). Individuals with CP (n = 5) received a total of twelve, 30-min TIMP sessions, two days per week for six to nine weeks. Pre- and post-Music Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) data were used as a measure of hand function. Pre-velocity...

OBJECTIVES Physicians may be asked by attorneys or other patient advocates to help plan for the long-term needs of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and developmental disability (DD). The first step in such planning is to thoroughly examine the literature dealing with life expectancy in these populations. This review paper comprehensively reviews the literature relating to survival in children ...

Background: Cerebral palsy is one of the most frequent disorders central nervous system. The various methods and techniques used by physical therapists can be very useful in treating children with cerebral palsy. purpose this review to investigate improve balance, increase muscle strength, acquire maintain agility, develop good neuromuscular coordination, functionality best possible independenc...

objectives: cerebral palsy (cp) is a static encephalopathy with abnormal reflexes that cause motor developmental delay. in addition to conventional methods, complementary medicine like homeopathy has been used in treatment of neuro-developmental disorders. this study has been done to determine the effect of adding homeopathic treatment to rehabilitation on abnormal reflexes of children with spa...

Background: Cerebral palsy is a group of non-progressive disorders movement or posture. Visual handicap in Palsy patients can have direct impact on psychosocial status. Refractive errors, strabismus, nystagmus, amblyopia and cortical visual impairment are observed 50 to 90 % with cerebral palsy.
 Objective: To evaluate for CP at Children’s Hospital UTHs.
 Methods: A cross section stud...

PURPOSE The objective of this study was to describe hand function in relation with gross motor function and subtype of spastic cerebral palsy and to investigate the relationships among gross motor function, bimanual performance, unimanual capacity and upper limb functional measures in children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). MATERIALS AND METHODS We collected upper extremity data of 140 chi...