your teeth at night‚ and making your bed in the morning. Imagine if you couldn’t button up a shirt‚ or zip your bookbag. That is the life of a person with Cerebral Palsy‚ A terrible disease that affects lives negatively everyday. Cerebral Palsy is a disability that affects about 2-3 babies in every 1‚000 births. So what is it? Cerebral Palsy‚ also known as CP‚ is a disabilty that will appear either before birth‚ during birth‚ or shortly after. CP will permanently affect a child‚ but will not
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Cerebral Palsy in Action You are in the hospital. You have a brand new baby in your arms staring up at you. You look back at them with pride glistening in your eyes and excitement in your heart. You realize that you have started on a new adventure and that you feel ready for all of the challenges this little bundle will throw at you. At least that’s how you feel until you get the news. It has been a few weeks since you have come home from the hospital and you just answered a phone call from your
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weeks‚ my parents yearning for the chance I’ll survive. I did. Then as time went one I wasn’t developing the way other newborns were. I was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy can cause many problems for the person who has it including low muscle tone‚ learning disabilities‚ seizure‚ loss of hearing‚ paralysis and more. Cerebral Palsy affected my legs to the point of where I could walk‚ but in crouched position with
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Cerebral palsy Cerebral palsy (CP) is a coordination and muscle movement disorder. Cerebral palsy have different affects on people. It can affect body movement‚ muscle coordination‚ muscle control‚ muscle reflect‚ posture and balance. It is caused by an injury in the part that control body movement in a child’s brain. People with cerebral palsy can have other problems such as seizures‚ decreased the ability of learning‚ problems hearing‚ seeing‚ and thinking. There is no cure has been
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Clinical Rehabilitation http://cre.sagepub.com Occupational therapy for children with cerebral palsy: a systematic review Esther MJ Steultjens‚ Joost Dekker‚ Lex M Bouter‚ Jos CM van de Nes‚ Brigitte LM Lambregts and Cornelia HM van den Ende Clin Rehabil 2004; 18; 1 DOI: 10.1191/0269215504cr697oa The online version of this article can be found at: http://cre.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/18/1/1 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Clinical
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the characteristics‚ prevalence and effects of dysarthria in children with Cerebral Palsy. It will also examine the effects of speech therapy on children who have been diagnosed with both Cerebral Palsy and dysarthria. The term Cerebral Palsy has been used as an umbrella term for which a number of different definitions have been proposed over the years. The most recent consensus definition recognizes that Cerebral Palsy is characterized by movement and posture disturbance‚ is nonprogressive in nature
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because of underlying neuromuscular disorders like cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy includes a wide variety of non-progressive brain disorders that occur during intrauterine life‚ delivery‚ or early infancy. It is defined as a syndrome of motor disabilities possibly accompanied by mental retardation‚ seizures‚ or both. Causes of cerebral palsy are many and include cerebral developmental disorders such as microcephaly‚ intracranial hemorrhage‚ cerebral anoxia‚ and toxins such as excessive bilirubin
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Cerebral Palsy is a term for a neurological or brain disorder that affects posture and movement. It is causes a loss of muscle control and coordination. People suffering from Cerebral Palsy have damage to the part of the brain that controls muscle tone. Muscle tone is the amount of resistance to movement in a muscle. During fetal life‚ birth and infancy damage is done to the motor areas of the brain. This can come in the form of radiation or lack of oxygen. Diagnosis of cerebral palsy does not occur
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Cerebral palsy is a common neural developmental condition that is typically encountered by pediatricians. There are numerous definitions of cerebral palsy‚ all of these definitions point out that cerebral palsy is a combination of several permanent but not unchangeable disorders that arise from injury to the adolescent development of the brain. Cerebral palsy consists of several disorders‚ some of which are related to the sever impairment of the motor functionality in young children‚ cerebral palsy
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Cerebral palsy and the effects on the family Introduction The purpose of this assignment is to explain show the experiences and difficulties a person with cerebaral palsy may have and the effects that this may have on their family Information was collected by interviewing a friend of mine whose daughter was born with cp Mary is a 13 year old girl from from cork who lives with her parents and twin sister and older brother. She was born thirteen years ago‚ along with her twin sister
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