The Epidemiology of Cerebral Palsy: New Perspectives From a Canadian Registry

Cerebral palsy (CP) was first recognized as a distinct clinical entity in the mid-19th century. Since then, our conceptualization of this neurodevelopmental disability has evolved with reification of its case definition. Presently, the most widely accepted consensus definition utilized for both clinical and research purposes is the one put forward by Rosenbaum et al in 2007, “cerebral palsy describes a group of permanent disorders of movement and posture, causing activity limitations, that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy are often accompanied by disturbance of sensation, perception, cognition, communication and behavior, by epilepsy and by musculo-skeletal problems.”
Source: Seminars in Pediatric Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research