A reassessment of spinal stabilization in severe cerebral palsy

C Cassidy, CL Craig, A Perry, LI Karlin… - Journal of Pediatric …, 1994 - journals.lww.com
… Summary: A homogenous population of 37 institutionalized patients with scoliosis and
severe cerebral palsy was evaluated to assess the impact of spinal stabilization on comfort, …

Effects of neural progenitor cell transplantation in children with severe cerebral palsy

Z Luan, W Liu, S Qu, K Du, S He, Z Wang… - Cell …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
… of infants with severe brain injuries has not changed the incidence of cerebral palsy (CP). …
The long-term special care and treatment required for CP patients, especially those severe

Pain in persons with cerebral palsy

L Schwartz, JM Engel, MP Jensen - Archives of Physical medicine and …, 1999 - Elsevier
… disability and moderate to severe limitations because of pain. … reported experiencing moderate
to severe pain on an almost … was in the moderate to severe range. Several limitations of …

Cerebral palsy: an overview

K Vitrikas, H Dalton, D Breish - American family physician, 2020 - aafp.org
… After establishing the diagnosis, various instruments can be used to evaluate the severity
of cerebral palsy and response to treatment. The most widely used evidence-based tool is the …

Increasing rates of cerebral palsy across the severity spectrum in north-east England 1964–1993

AF Colver, M Gibson, EN Hey, SN Jarvis… - Archives of Disease in …, 2000 - fn.bmj.com
… half of all cases of cerebral palsy and just over half of the most severe cases, whereas in the
… most severe (χ 2 and χ 2 for trend p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS The rate of cerebral palsy has …

Antenatal antecedents of moderate and severe cerebral palsy

L Palmer, E Blairt, B Petterson… - Paediatric and perinatal …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
… non-cerebral palsy neurological disorder were significantly associated with cerebral palsy;
these … This study shows that some of the risk of cerebral palsy associated with the antenatal …

Anthropometric measures: poor predictors of body fat in children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy

MN Kuperminc, MJ Gurka, JA Bennis… - … Medicine & Child …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim This purpose of our study was to assess and compare anthropometric measures of
adiposity and direct measurement of percentage body fat by dual emission X‐ray absorptiometry …

Assessing pain in patients with severe cerebral palsy: development, reliability, and validity of a pain assessment instrument for cerebral palsy

EJ Boldingh, MA Jacobs-van der Bruggen… - Archives of physical …, 2004 - Elsevier
severity of pain experienced by people with cerebral palsy (… frequently occurs in people with
severe CP; approximately 40% of … practice in the case of severely disabled persons is still to …

Measurement of muscle thickness as quantitative muscle evaluation for adults with severe cerebral palsy

K Ohata, T Tsuboyama, N Ichihashi… - Physical therapy, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… The muscle strength of people with severe cerebral palsy (CP… with CP with different levels
of severity of involvement. The … sample of 25 adults with severe CP. Methods. The MTH of …

Videofluoroscopic assessment in children with severe cerebral palsy presenting with dysphagia

RER Wright, ER Wright, CA Carson - Pediatric Radiology, 1996 - Springer
… Abstract In this study 16 patients with severe spastic cerebral palsy with an age range
between 6 months and 16 years were examined using videofluoroscopy and a modified barium …