This disconnect can lead to adults with cerebral palsy being prescribed medications that aren't the correct treatment for the source of their concerns, creating patterns of people taking drugs that ...

University of Delaware's Mona Batish is a molecular biologist. She studies circular RNAs formed as a result of so-called ...

March 25th is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day ... Pharmacological interventions to manage spasticity, seizures, or pain. In some cases, surgery, including options such as Botox injections to relieve ...

It doesn’t seem out of the ordinary — until I share that, due to complications during birth, I was diagnosed with athetoid spastic cerebral palsy when I was 3 months old. Need a break?

Thirteen-year-old Soyama Vena, who has been battling diplegic cerebral palsy, has undergone a transformative operation at ...

You can check out at any time. More info A groundbreaking new survey has highlighted the severe challenges faced by people with cerebral palsy (CP) in Ireland, shedding light on issues ranging ...

Botox injections can provide lasting help to children with cerebral palsy, scientits said today ... "Previous drugs for spasticity were always different according to whether the cause was from ...

Only recently has the secondary condition of pain been researched in adults with cerebral palsy. Results suggest ... described children with CP or spasticity as the largest group of patients ...

When I see a person for the first time with spasticity, the first thing I need to ask the patient is how it's affecting them. Sometimes, it's pain. Sometimes, it's discomfort. And sometimes ...

Objective To determine the patterns of risk of intellectual disability in children with spastic CP. Design Cross-sectional, population-based study using the Northern Ireland Cerebral Palsy Register.

Dantrolene is the initial medication of choice for spasticity of cerebral origin, because it acts at the level of the peripheral muscle with minimal untoward central effects. The newest drug for ...