Vaginal breech delivery — when a baby is born bottom first — does not increase the risk of cerebral palsy, according to a study reviewing the outcomes of more than 500,000 births. The study, “Is vaginal breech delivery associated with higher risk for perinatal death and cerebral palsy compared…
Assessment of people with dyskinetic cerebral palsy (CP) — dominated by involuntary, uncontrolled, and stereotypical movements — should include a classification for eating and drinking as well as speech difficulties, a recent study concluded. Understanding how the main symptoms of dyskinetic CP relate to measurements of functional aspects can help…
Fatigue is very common among mothers of children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP), and is linked to higher levels of depression and a lower quality of life, suggesting that the well-being of mothers needs to be considered when designing family-centered rehabilitation programs for kids with CP. But for such programs…
Although dalfampridine extended-release treatment was found safe and well-tolerated in a pilot study in adults with cerebral palsy (CP), the drug failed to show any impact on walking ability. Although the trial, which focused on adult CP patients with walking difficulties, was small, the lack of benefits prompted researchers to…
Learning to play a musical instrument could improve cerebral palsy (CP) patients’ hand movement and strengthen their sensorimotor skills, researchers said in the journal Neural Plasticity. Conventional CP rehabilitation does not engages the entire brain like playing an instrument, but few studies have explored the idea, researchers from Technical…
Moderately premature babies who have a low birth weight for their gestational age, relatively speaking, age often diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP). But researchers do not understand the causes linking these two factors, and more research is needed to improve care and understand the prognosis of unusually small preterm infants. The study,…
The increase in cesarean sections brought on by the use of electronic fetal monitoring during delivery has not reduced rates of cerebral palsy, instead placing women at high risk of complications and death. The trend in using electronic monitoring, opting for cesarean sections at the slightest sign of abnormality, has…
The common occurrence of eye problems in children with spastic cerebral palsy suggests that all such children should have a detailed ophthalmologic evaluation, according to a recent study. The report, “Ocular findings in patients with spastic type cerebral palsy,” was published in the journal BMC Ophthalmology.
An enzyme called hyaluronidase might reduce muscle stiffness in people with cerebral palsy and other neurological injuries, without causing the muscles to become weak — a major drawback of current approaches to treating muscle stiffness. The study, “Human Recombinant Hyaluronidase Injections For Upper Limb Muscle Stiffness in…
Hemoglobin leaked from red blood cells after a brain hemorrhage in infants born too early likely contributes to the development of long-term complications often developing in the children, such as cerebral palsy. The findings of the study, “High Presence of Extracellular Hemoglobin in the Periventricular White Matter Following…