Quadriplegic spastic cerebral palsy is the most severe form of the condition and causes sufferers to not be able to use their legs, arms and bodies. Cerebral palsy is a neurological disorder that ...

Kinematic characteristics of reaching movements of the dominant arm were assessed in 51 sitting preterm children who were aged 2–11 y and had cerebral palsy (CP), including 33 with spastic hemiplegia ...

A Delaware team including Erin Crowgey, PhD, associate director of Bioinformatics with Nemours Biomedical Research, has published a study in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Bioinformatics, showing that ...

Back in the 1860's, the English surgeon, William Little became the first person to medically describe the condition that today we call "cerebral palsy". "Cerebral" means related to the brain, while ...

The assessment of neurological outcome in preterm infants could potentially be improved by combining Prechtl's method of qualitative assessment of general movements (GMs) with a quantitative measure ...

When University of Delaware molecular biologist Adam Marsh was studying the DNA of worms living in Antarctica’s frigid seas to understand how the organisms managed to survive—and thrive—in the ...

People across the globe are marking World Cerebral Palsy Day on 6 October. The awareness day was first celebrated in 2012 and it aims to bring together people living with cerebral palsy as well as ...

Cerebral palsy is a neurological disorder that affects the motor nerves and usually appears in infancy or early childhood. It affects one in every five hundred children and caused by abnormal brain ...