The ‘F-words’ in childhood disability: I swear this is how we should think! Child Care Health Dev. Recent trends in cerebral palsy survival. This paper contains the agreed definition of cerebral palsy and the rationale behind each of the words in the definition.īrooks, J. A report: the definition and classification of cerebral palsy April 2006. Meeting the needs of people with cerebral palsy in resource-poor settings is particularly challenging. These management strategies include enhancing neurological function during early development managing medical co-morbidities, weakness and hypertonia using rehabilitation technologies to enhance motor function and preventing secondary musculoskeletal problems.
Clinical management of children with cerebral palsy is directed towards maximizing function and participation in activities and minimizing the effects of the factors that can make the condition worse, such as epilepsy, feeding challenges, hip dislocation and scoliosis. Although the disorder affects individuals throughout their lifetime, most cerebral palsy research efforts and management strategies currently focus on the needs of children. For example, administration of magnesium sulfate during premature labour and cooling of high-risk infants can reduce the rate and severity of cerebral palsy. There is currently no cure, but progress is being made in both the prevention and the amelioration of the brain injury.
The clinical manifestations of cerebral palsy vary greatly in the type of movement disorder, the degree of functional ability and limitation and the affected parts of the body.
Cerebral palsy is not a disease entity in the traditional sense but a clinical description of children who share features of a non-progressive brain injury or lesion acquired during the antenatal, perinatal or early postnatal period. Cerebral palsy is the most common cause of childhood-onset, lifelong physical disability in most countries, affecting about 1 in 500 neonates with an estimated prevalence of 17 million people worldwide.
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