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 ...

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, ...

The study used 2016-2020 information from the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS), an administrative database that includes more than 49 children's hospitals. The authors stratified study ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved expanded use of Dysport to treat upper- and lower-limb spasticity – including that caused by cerebral palsy – for patients as young as 2 years and older, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...