The International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) was approved in
2001 and, since then, several studies reported the increased interest about its use in …

Advances in antenatal medicine and neonatal intensive care, including more aggressive
delivery room resuscitation, surfactant use, antenatal corticosteroid utilization, improved …

We devised a new Functional Mobility Scale (FMS) to describe functional mobility in children
with cerebral palsy, as an aid to communication between orthopaedic surgeons and health …

This article addresses the need for age-relevant outcome measures for traumatic brain injury
(TBI) research and summarizes the recommendations by the inter-agency Pediatric TBI …

Objective. To present an epidemiologic profile of children with special health care needs
using a new definition of the population developed by the federal Maternal and Child Health …

Botulinum neurotoxin type‐A (BoNT‐A) has been used in association with other
interventions in the management of spasticity in children with cerebral palsy (CP) for almost …

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is the most common bone genetic disorder and it is
characterized by bone brittleness and various degrees of growth disorder. Clinical severity …

The aim of this study was to examine measures of health-related quality of life (HRQL) in
children with cerebral palsy (CP) by comparing scores of a generic HRQL measure, the …

Objective: To provide an overview of functional assessment measures for children with
cerebral palsy, supporting the selection of measures and the interpretation of results from …

The long term effects of central nervous system therapy for children with brain tumors have
been the subject of research since the 1970s. Many studies have demonstrated that children …