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 [...]
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 [...]
