Cerebral palsy has been affecting children ever since there have been children. Though the condition is not very common, it is simply not a newly discovered disorder. The medical industry has started studying more about cerebral palsy in 1861. The initiative began when William John Little, an English orthopedics surgeon, Read more…
Everyday life could post some challenges on the life of a child with cerebral palsy. There are different obstacles that children with cerebral palsy face. But as parents, the biggest fear would be how they would be able to make or provide the life of a child to their disabled Read more…
It is not that easy to say that it is easy to live with cerebral palsy, but the first step in dealing with the disorder is to help others learn how to cope with cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is the common term used to define or describe a group of Read more…
People with cerebral palsy also go through life’s usual phases of ups and downs which are common and normal stages in life and knowing how to help boost self –esteem for people with cerebral palsy is the first step to empowering them, instead of making them feel bad about their Read more…
No parent would ever like his or her child to be diagnosed with cerebral palsy. This is for the simple reason that the condition would truly affect and hinder any baby’s normal growth and development. This brain condition is not a cause for retardation, but it could very much affect Read more…
It is estimated that about two in every thousand newly born infants have a condition known as cerebral palsy. Unfortunately, there is still no known cure for the condition. Cerebral palsy is directly affecting the brain of the baby, hindering its full development and specifically preventing motor and sometimes sensory Read more…
One of the most prevalent yet enigmatic disorders known in the medical world today is cerebral palsy, but hoping to get a glimpse into cerebral palsy will help people understand why it happens and what can be done to deal with it. Cerebral paralysis is also known as CP for Read more…
In many parts of the world, medical practitioners refer to cerebral palsy as a major development disability. The condition is affecting how children develop their motor skills particularly. In the United States alone, experts are being alarmed that there are more cases of cerebral palsy today. It is becoming more Read more…
Children with cerebral palsy do not only have problems with their motor skills. This can, actually, be defined or referred to as insufficient growth and development. Children would cerebral palsy would often experience difficulty in eating. Difficulties would include unable to swallow, hyperactive gag reflex, and inability to control feeding. Read more…
Medical science has ruled out that cerebral palsy was never a disease. It is a condition that developed inside the womb of the mother during pregnancy. It is a condition where the baby, for various reasons, is born with some damage in the brain which eventually causes problems with the Read more…
Cerebral palsy is a challenging condition not only due to various complications or problems involved with the condition but also the social learning challenge that is involved. Since cerebral palsy underlying problems and conditions begin at an early age, children needs to undergo a somewhat different kind of learning process Read more…
The first identified cerebral palsy was in 1860 by an English surgeon known as William Little. It was in 1897 that neurologist Sigmund Freud was able to discern that the condition was a symptom of different unlikely causes during fetal development. In 1980, some scientists at the National Institute of Read more…