DNA patterns in circulating blood cells can be used to help identify spastic cerebral palsy (CP) patients through a blood test and even predict childhood leukemia show breakthrough results from a new ...

What is spastic cerebral palsy? Cerebral palsy is defined as a non-progressive neuromotor disorder of cerebral origin. There are many types of cerebral palsy, such as spastic, dyskinetic, ataxic, ...

Cerebral Palsy has been linked to a condition called cryptorchidism in males - when one or both of the testicles are not present in the scrotum. A new study in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology ...

Botulinum toxin is an established antispastic treatment for children with cerebral palsy (CP), but its effect on adductor spasticity—an important risk factor for hip dislocation—has not been ...

After more than six decades in business, the Spastic Centre has renamed itself the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, arguing that these days the word spastic has too many negative connotations. To mark the ...

Selective dorsal rhizotomy is a surgical procedure aimed to ease muscle rigidity and improve mobility in patients with cerebral palsy. The operation involves cutting some of the nerves in the spine ...

Impaired motor function in the child with cerebral palsy affects movements, gait and other daily activities in the individual. An individual with cerebral palsy has impaired motor function. There are ...

Patients with upper motor neuron disorders demonstrated marked improvement in objective and subjective measures, including pain relief, function and mobility, after total hip arthroplasty, according ...

Cerebral palsy is divided into three major classifications to describe different movement impairments. The classifications are also significant to different areas of the brain. This is the most common ...

Selective dorsal rhizotomy is a surgical procedure aimed to ease muscle rigidity and improve mobility in patients with cerebral palsy. The operation involves cutting some of the nerves in the spine ...