Pediatric patients with tetraparesis cerebral palsy (TCP) who are fed by gastrostomy, which is the insertion of a feeding tube into the stomach via an external opening in the abdomen, receive better nutrition than patients fed orally, a new study found. The study, “Comparative study on gastrostomy…
Health Canada has approved Cuvposa (glycopyrrolate) to treat chronic severe drooling in children aged 3 to 18 years old with cerebral palsy (CP) and other neurological conditions. Montreal-based Pediapharm developed Cuvposa to address excessive the saliva production — also known as sialorrhea — often found in children with CP, as…
A study in mice has linked mothers’ exposure to smoke to their offsprings’ development of cerebral palsy and cognitive problems. The study, “Maternal Cigarette Smoke Exposure Worsens Neurological Outcomes in Adolescent Offspring with Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury,” was published in the journal Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. Depriving a…
Cerebral palsy is a physical disability that impacts coordination and muscle tone. But what about the mental health of someone who has cerebral palsy? How does the physical disability impact the mental state? Oct. 10 was World Mental Health Day, and in honor of that I…
The 2017 Strategic Plan for Cerebral Palsy Research is finished and was recently announced by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The plan identifies several research priorities that have…
Researchers from the NIH Clinical Center’s Rehabilitation Medicine Program have developed the first robotic exoskeleton specially designed to help treat crouch gait in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Crouch (or flexed-knee) gait is the excessive bending of the knees while walking, a common and debilitating condition in children with CP.
Cerebral palsy varies from person to person in how it affects people. Limitations in one person might be completely different from another person. One symptom, however, remains the same in those who have cerebral palsy: Muscles become uncontrollable to some degree. Muscles can be stiff, too relaxed,…
Australian researchers are testing a new device to measure foot control in order to improve walking ability for teens and young adults with cerebral palsy (CP). A team led by Shari O’Brien of the University of Queensland’s School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences will evaluate if the newly designed…
About 20 young Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) patients with cerebral palsy or other physical challenges had the opportunity to go horseback riding recently, an accomplishment many “didn’t realize they could achieve,” as one HSS staffer put it. The New York-based, academic specialty hospital, which exclusively…
A new international team has been formed by the Australian Cerebral Palsy Research Group at the University of Adelaide to investigate previously unknown genetic causes of cerebral palsy (CP). The new group, called the International Cerebral Palsy Genomics Consortium, has members from…