A 16-year-old girl with cerebral palsy will join the championship University of Pittsburgh’s softball team, which recruited her through the Team IMPACT program. New Panthers member Rylee DiTullio was accompanied by her parents and team coach Jodi Hermanek, along with school senior and infield player Olivia Gray, for…
Contending that the effects of addiction outweigh pain management, the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation (CPARF) has launched a medical research initiative to treat chronic pain without opiates. The new approach aims to craft customized treatments to alleviate or eliminate recurring pain for cerebral palsy (CP) patients of all…
To help cerebral palsy patients get the needed therapeutic braces and prosthetics that insurance companies can be reluctant to pay for, experts and innovators from New York University (NYU) are collaborating on a new, low-cost approach to custom hand orthotics.
An exchange program, sponsored by nonprofit organization Mitacs and the University of Toronto, gave doctoral student Alexander MacIntosh the opportunity to design a video game to help youths with cerebral palsy improve function in their underused hand. His goal was to make occupational therapy less taxing for cerebral…
Michelle Laver remembers putting a rattle in her infant daughter’s hand and closing her little fingers around it. Then she watched the rattle fall. Kate couldn’t hold on to it. Michelle and Richard Laver, founders of Kate Farms, with Kate, 11. (Photo courtesy of Kate Farms) Kate eventually…