Dr. Sidhartha Tan, an award-winning pediatrician, professor and medical researcher in Chicago, has been appointed as the division director of the Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine at the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Hutzel Women’s Hospital. Tan, also professor of pediatrics at Wayne State University School of…
A new study suggests that video games might improve upper body movement in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and adherence to physical therapy. The report, “Using Free Internet Videogames in Upper Extremity Motor Training for Children with Cerebral Palsy,“ appeared in the journal Behavioral…
If you’ve had any kind of pain ever for any reason in your life you know that doctors, your mom, your spouse, your neighbor, etc. are always quick to push pain pills to give you relief. This is great if you have a headache, sprained your back, or got your…
Children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) have postural stability problems, either when standing or in movement, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Physical Therapy Science. Postural stability is the ability to maintain the body position without changing the base of support. It requires…
I think this one of the most widely known quotes within the disabled community. I can’t count the amount of times on all of my fingers and toes how often I’ve heard this phrase and for some reason, much to my surprise, the quote “Let’s talk about your quality of…
The University of Delaware (UD) organized and hosted a Cerebral Palsy Research Symposium on May 24, allowing investigators from different disciplines to explain their research, network, and seek new collaborative projects to fight the neurological disorder that currently has no cure. The event gathered researchers and clinicians from Nemours/Alfred…
Virginia Tech (VT) associate professor of mechanical engineering Pinhas Ben-Tzvi, will develop a robotic glove to facilitate the early diagnosis of cerebral palsy in children. Ben-Tzvi, founding director of the VT Engineering department’s Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory, worked for years on…
Last week I published a post about the symptoms of Cerebral Palsy. In it, we discovered that the signs and symptoms of Cerebral Palsy differ and that they vary from person to person. I noted in that post that while I had at least a few bullet points under every…
While video games are increasingly popular tools to improve motor skills in children with cerebral palsy, therapists need education and tools to choose games suited to the needs of individual patients. A recently developed instrument to evaluate movement linked to video games has the potential to aid therapists in their…
Leptin could be a suitable marker for assessing the nutritional status of children with cerebral palsy (CP) — a task not as straightforward as it sounds, since features of kids with cerebral palsy make them unlikely to fit the conventional scales. Key findings indicate that including serum leptin measurements in nutritional…