A local telethon will be held this weekend in Terrebonne, Louisiana for children with cerebral palsy in Louisiana. Funds raised will help provide children with cerebral palsy assistive devices, such as braces, wheel chairs and other medical equipment.
The Louisiana cerebral palsy telethon will be held at the Houma-Terrbonne Civic Center, in Houma, Louisiana, on [...]
There has been promising new research into the use of electrical brain implants to restore some movement for people affected by cerebral palsy.
French researchers have placed electrical devices known as deep brain stimulators into 13 people who have cerebral palsy with dystonia-choreoathetosis. The stimulators, made by Medtronic, Inc., are already approved to treat Parkinson’s disease, [...]
Some parents of children with cerebral palsy are finding that use of a speech therapy device originally approved to help stroke sufferers regain the ability to eat and swallow properly could also help increase their children’s ability to communicate.
VitalStim is an electrical device approved by the FDA for the treatment of dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing. [...]
Hopeful for the slightest chance to cure their children, some parents in the United States are starting to go abroad to seek out experimental stem cell treatment for cerebral palsy.
A recent article by McClatchy Newspapers highlighted the efforts of two California families who are hoping that stem cell treatments using cells from umbilical cord blood [...]
A new software program could help children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities communicate more quickly and naturally with family and teachers.
The How Was School Today? computer system is equipped with a battery of sensors and recording devices that keep track of a child’s activity throughout the day, and then helps the child turn the [...]
A Maryland jury awarded $3,991,000 to the family of a 9 year-old boy who developed cerebral palsy from a lack of oxygen to the brain before or during birth, which was found to have been caused by the medical negligence of an emergency room physician and obstetrician.
Read more about this Maryland cerebral palsy lawsuit
Engineers at MIT have made great breakthroughs in the use of robotic therapy to treat cerebral palsy and other brain injuries, helping children to better control of their arms and legs.
According to a press release earlier this month, MIT researchers say that the use of cerebral palsy robotic therapy has the potential to help children [...]
Recent research indicates that the administration of magnesium sulfate in women who are at risk of delivering premature, before 32 weeks gestation, reduces the risk of cerebral palsy by about 50%.
A 10-year study conducted at 18 centers in the United States was published in the August 28, 2008 issue of the New England Journal of [...]
New research suggests that two compounds developed at Northwestern University could possibly be used in the future to treat infants at risk for compromised oxygen levels before a c-section to prevent cerebral palsy.
About 750,000 adults and children in the United States have some form of cerebral palsy, which is caused by brain damage suffered before, [...]
