Cerebral palsy (CP) is an overarching term to describe several different disorders as a result of brain damage that occurs in children before, during or shortly after birth (Lane & Bundy, 2011). Cerebral palsy is the most common motor disability in children. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1 in 323 children in the United States has CP. Children with CP typical...

Chronic Conditions in AdultsWith Cerebral Palsy Adultswith cerebral palsy (CP) represent an increasing population whose health status and health care needs are poorly understood.1Mortality records reveal that deathdue to ischemicheart disease and cancer is higher among adultswithCP2; however, there have been no national surveillance efforts to track disease risk in this population. We examined ...

Objectives: Massage therapy is one of the most widely used complementary and alternative medicine therapies for children. This study was conducted to determine the effect of wedish massage on abnormal reflexes in children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). Methods: This study was a single blind clinical trial conducted on forty children with spastic CP who were recruited from clinics of the U...

Background: Individuals with severe cerebral palsy (CP) often experience various health issues, including feeding difficulties, which can adversely affect their nutritional status and caregivers’ quality of life, e.g., more time spent for rather than own selfcare. This study aimed to determine the prevalence poor among individuals CP explore its role as predictors life.

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common motor disability in childhood. It affects 2 to 2.5 children in 1000 live-births, with 20 to 30 fold increased prevalence in preterm infants. Despite of progress in perinatal care, the prevalence of cerebral palsy did not change in the last 50 years. New knowledge about etiological factors, such as inflammation, elevated level of cytokines, vascular strokes...

The term cerebral palsy (CP) covers a group of non-progressive, but often changing, motor impairment syndromes secondary to lesions or anomalies of the brain arising in the early stages of development. Between 20 to 25 of every 10,000 live-born children in the Western world have the condition (Stanley et al 2000). Problems may occur in utero, perinatal, and postnatal. Infections, traumatic brai...

how to cite this article: gajewska e, sobieska m, samborski w. associations between manual abilities, gross motor function, epilepsy, and mental capacity in children with cerebral palsy. iran j child neurol. 2014 spring 8(2):45-52. objective this study aimed to evaluate gross motor function and hand function in children with cerebral palsy to explore their association with epilepsy and mental c...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is one of the most common disabilities affecting children. Most of the children suffering from cerebral palsy have associated abnormalities, which have a direct effect upon rehabilitation management, functional outcome and prognosis. Two hundred diagnosed cases of CP in the age group of two years and above were assessed and various associated handicaps were identified. In th...

BACKGROUND: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a nonprogressive neurologic disorder. Anecdotal evidence suggests there are worse outcomes in this population after common operative procedures like appendectomy. This study aims to classify whether there are relevant disparities in postoperative outcomes in CP versus non-CP patients after open or laparoscopic appendectomy. METHODS: Hospital discharge data fro...

BACKGROUND The causes and pathogenesis of cerebral palsy (CP) are all poorly understood, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). There are gaps in knowledge about CP in Bangladesh, especially in the spheres of epidemiological research, intervention and service utilization. In high-income countries CP registers have made substantial contributions to our understanding of CP. In t...