Seven New Year’s Resolutions To Make 2017 a Happy Success

January is a new month and year, which marks a whole new start. Having cerebral palsy shouldn’t stop anyone from making new year resolutions. I like Christmastime, but I also always like opening a brand new calendar to write down my New Year’s resolutions. I rarely complete…

Exercise Programs Benefit for Young People in Wheelchairs, But Need Greater Push

Exercise leads to improvements in the health and overall well-being of wheelchair-dependent children and young adults, including those with cerebral palsy, and needs to be better promoted though more rigorous study, a review article argues. These conclusions, based on a review of some 30 published reports, were in the study, “…

Electronic Fetal Monitoring — No Benefits, Plenty of Harm

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…

Liftware Level Eating Device Helps People with Limited Hand, Arm Mobility

Verily Life Sciences recently launched its newest assistive technology device called Liftware Level, engineered to help people with movement disorders that may make it difficult to keep utensils level while eating, such as cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, Huntington’s disease, or post-stroke deficits. Liftware Level uses electronic…