Two factors must be considered when the role of treatment in cerebral palsy is defined. The
first is the nature of the original non-progressive brain lesion, and the second is the effect of …

EACH December we editors invite the year's President of the American Academy of
Cerebral Palsy to write a guest editorial. This is a policy and tradition which we hope will …

IN Italy nearly all residential institutions for spastics refuse admission to children under 3
years of age (Associazione Nazionale per 1'Assistenza agli Spastici 1961, De Ciampis and …

WITH increasing experience comes the knowledge that physical treatment is only one facet
of the habilitation of children with cerebral palsy, and one becomes ever more conscious of …

Since Little's original description of cerebral palsy,'aetiological factors have received
considerable attention in the past two decades. Little's hypothesis that birth injury was the …

I read P Graves' paper'with interest and concern. I had difficulty matching the title and the
contents with my understanding of modern paediatric rehabilitation for children with cerebral …

In the past 15 years or so our understanding of many aspects of cerebral palsy has
significantly broadened. Traditional concepts regarding aetiology have been radically …

THE various discussions of aims and outcomes of physiotherapy in SCRUTTON'S
volume'make it clear that physicians and therapists involved in cerebral palsy still have very …

THAT the cause of the majority of cerebral palsy cannot be looked for in perinatal factors is
once again confirmed by the study reported in this issue by Largo and colleagues (p. 440) …

SCRUTTON has stated what he feels should be the aims of the therapist working with the
cerebral-palsied child'. First, he insists that there should be as accurate as possible …