As a result, caring for a child with cerebral palsy or other disabilities can be expensive — almost $1 Million over your child’s lifetime, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Rocco Green was born prematurely at 32 weeks and diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 16 months, presenting as spastic diplegia. This meant he had tightness in his leg muscles ... raised more than ...

Because of diverse etiologies and unique individual patient profiles, cerebral palsy will remain a complex treatment area. The modafinil-treated patients in this study with spastic diplegia are ...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common motor disability in childhood, affecting about one in 323 children in the United States. It's caused by brain damage and affects a person's muscle tone, balance, ...

Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) is a surgical procedure aimed at reducing spasticity in children with cerebral palsy (CP), particularly ... processes regarding the surgery, and assessing the ...

There are four main presentations of cerebral palsy: diplegic, hemiplegic, triplegic, and tetra (also known as quadra) plegic. These deceptively nice-sounding Latin words refer to the number of ...

Cerebral palsy lawyers work with families to determine if their child’s condition may have been caused by medical malpractice. If a health care professional made a mistake before, during, or after ...

Jacob has been diagnosed with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy, which affects the mobility in his legs, making it impossible for him to walk independently without his walker. However, he is ...

In 2003, the mother of a modafinil-treated patient requested that her younger daughter also be started on modafinil for cerebral palsy ... old female with spastic diplegia owing to prematurity ...

Jacob was diagnosed with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy - which affects the mobility in his legs. He is unable to walk independently without his walker. But he is "very tactile" - meaning that ...