A systematic review of vestibular stimulation in cerebral palsy - Topley D, McConnell K, Kerr C.
Purpose: Identify the types and dosage of vestibular stimulation interventions in persons with cerebral palsy (CP), and establish the efficacy of these interventions on balance and function.Materials and Methods: This systematic review follow... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
As a disabled person, it's hard to watch accessibility only improve now that able-bodied are affected
Waking up with cerebral palsy is as unpredictable as it is unremarkable on a regular day. Add in a pandemic, a loss of income, and national reports that equate to government ministers with megaphones saying, "Disabled people, lock yourselves away," and things get a tad more complicated. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Saskatchewan Source Type: news
Follow-up of walking quality after end of growth in 28 children with bilateral cerebral palsy - Bonnefoy-Mazure A, De Coulon G, Lascombes P, Armand S.
PURPOSE: Assessment of surgical treatments on gait in patients with bilateral cerebral palsy (CP) is often performed in short-term studies. The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of single-event multilevel surgery (SEMLS) on long-term evolu... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
China ’s Draconian Lockdown Is Getting Credit for Slowing Coronavirus. Would It Work Anywhere Else?
As COVID-19 spread rapidly across China, authorities took an aggressive stance to fight the coronavirus. They were slow to respond to the outbreak—at first suppressing information and denying that it could spread between humans even as it did just that. But, as case numbers skyrocketed, Beijing went to extraordinary lengths to fight the virus, identified at COVID-19, in a campaign Chinese President Xi Jinping has described as a “people’s war.”
The most dramatic, and controversial, of the measures was the lockdown of of tens of millions of people in what is believed to be the largest quasi-quarantin...
Source: TIME: Health - March 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Amy Gunia Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 overnight Source Type: news
What Are Some Risk Factors for Cerebral Palsy?
Discussion
The term, cerebral palsy, or CP has gone through many iterations with the first description in 1861 by W.J. Little who described it as “The condition of spastic rigidity of the limbs of newborn children.” The most recent definition is from Rosenbaun et al. in 2007 which states it is “a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, 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 disturbances of sensation, perception, cog...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 9, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Walking on uneven ground: how do patients with unilateral cerebral palsy adapt? - Romkes J, Freslier M, Rutz E, Bracht-Schweizer K.
BACKGROUND: Children with cerebral palsy experience movement disorders that influence gait stability. It is likely that gait stability further decreases when walking on uneven compared to even ground. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate gai... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
NICE pushes for multidisciplinary teams in cerebral palsy care
NICE ’s latest quality standard highlights areas for improvement in care for adults with cerebral palsy, to enable them to live independently. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 16, 2020 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy takes first steps without walker
Marick Williams Jr., a 5-year-old who has cerebral palsy, took his first steps without a walker two months after undergoing surgery. The boy's mother posted video of his accomplishment on Facebook, and he has become an internet sensation. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - February 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Boy with cerebral palsy takes first steps
This is not the first time little MJ has inspired countless people by overcoming the odds — and it probably won't be his last. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - February 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Philadelphia consortium awards $200,000 to developers of pediatric medical devices
The Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania Pediatric Medical Device Consortium awarded $200,000 in seed grants this week to four startup companies in its latest round of funding to support promising projects addressing the health needs of children.
The four companies to receive $50,000 each are developing devices for children with heartbeat arrhythmias, congenital heart disease, cerebral palsy, and developmental dysplasia of the hip.
The consortium is funded by the Food and Drug Administration and based… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - February 6, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: John George Source Type: news
Chinese Cerebral Palsy Victim Dies After Caretaker Quarantined for Virus Chinese Cerebral Palsy Victim Dies After Caretaker Quarantined for Virus
Chinese authorities removed two officials in Hubei province, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, over the death of a cerebral palsy patient whose father and sole caretaker was taken into quarantine.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines)
Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines - February 5, 2020 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Laughter is the best medicine for IWK's newest therapeutic clown
John Lang has been staying at the IWK Health Centre for over a month and is usually in pain, but the boy with cerebral palsy is always good for a boisterous laugh when the hospital's newest staff member visits. After all, she’s a clown. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - February 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Nova Scotia Source Type: news
Touching moment a little girl, 4, with cerebral palsy takes her first steps
A video has gone viral of Kinley Jones, four, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, who has the motor disability, learning how to walk as ditches the walker and begins walking towards her mother. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Understanding children with cerebral palsy and bullying: a mixed methods-approach - Stang K, Frainey B, Tann B, Ehrlich-Jones L, Deike D, Gaebler-Spira D.
AIM: To explore the views of children with cerebral palsy (CP) regarding their experiences being bullied and their perceptions of their primary bully. METHOD: Forty-three children aged 10-18 with CP were given the California Bullying Victimization ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Efficacy and safety of core stability training on gait of children with cerebral palsy: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis - Huang C, Chen Y, Chen G, Xie Y, Mo J, Li K, Huang R, Pan G, Cai Y, Zhou L.
BACKGROUND: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a common disability in children featured with pathological gait and limb function limitation due to muscle weakness. Improving limb function and quality of life is currently considered to be highlighted. Physiotherapy is ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 10, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
