It’s SMART to think about what you might want to discuss at your next doctor’s appointment. Here are some suggestions
The second Virtual Town Hall featured the experts from Rady Children's Hospital, Southern Family CP Center, and UC San Diego School of Medicine in San Diego, California. This multi-disciplinary panel discussion highlights the latest updates in care of children with CerebralPalsy.
This fact sheet is a sexual and reproductive health guideline for providers treating young women with cerebral palsy.
As your child with CP is becoming a teenager, there are a couple of things you may want to think about.
It’s SMART to think about what you might want to discuss at your next doctor’s appointment. Here are some suggestions
It's really hard just to watch someone walk to decide what's wrong with them. A better way is to do what's called Three Dimensional Gait Analysis, and that's where the child comes into one of our labs. Here, we put markers on their face, hands, and legs. We have a computer and a bunch of cameras all around the room. And then we're able to break down the gait into three dimensions.
As an orthopedic surgeon I take care of children from the time they're born all the way through to adulthood . My oldest patient I have is 87 years old. As part of my practice I'm able to take care of all of their musculoskeletal problems, their problems with their bones and their joints.