Brayden Scarsella is a 10-year-old boy living with spastic hemiplegia, a type of unilateral cerebral palsy that causes paralysis on one side of the body. As part of his treatment, Brayden attends ...

Kinematic characteristics of reaching movements of the dominant arm were assessed in 51 sitting preterm children who were aged 2–11 y and had cerebral palsy (CP), including 33 with spastic hemiplegia ...

Aclinic visit at about 4 months corrected age is important in the assessment of early motor development. Motor milestones that should be present at 4 months corrected age include visual tracking in a ...

Cerebral palsy can affect any of a person’s motor skills — skills related to movement — including fine, gross, and oral motor skills. Fine motor skills refer to tasks that use small muscles from one ...

At just 4 years old, Maya Tisdale of Michigan has gone through quite a journey. She was born four months early and had to stay at the ICU for 26 weeks. Just before she turned 2 years old, she was ...

DURING the past year medicine has continued to see remarkable advances in all aspects of definitive medicine and surgery. Capping these recent advances have been the development of the new steroid ...

REHABILITATION of the upper extremity in hemiplegie patients presents multiple problems. Superimposed musculoskeletal and neuromuscular complications may be obscured by the hemiplegia. Prompt ...

The Amazing Magic Club brings together magicians and occupational therapists to help children with spastic hemiplegia, giving them a chance to learn magic skills in a 10-day therapy program at Darling ...

The most common type of CP diagnosed in the premature population is spastic CP. These infants are usually initially hypotonic, with spasticity developing over time. Spasticity is characterized by ...