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July 13, 2022

Pediatric Bimanual Therapy: A Scoping Review of Patients, Methods, and Outcomes

Bimanual therapy, also referred to as intensive bimanual training, engages patients in active play or practice to improve the use and coordination of both hands. Bimanual therapy is different from similar unimanual therapies, like constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT), because it promotes simultaneous use of both hands.

March 2, 2022

Understanding Pain with Cerebral Palsy Fact Sheet

The Cerebral Palsy Foundation has created a factsheet to help guide you in understanding and treating pain with CP. This fact sheet has been created for individuals with cerebral palsy to provide basic guidance surrounding common causes and potential treatment of pain.

Every person who has cerebral palsy experiences pain differently

December 9, 2020

Making Decisions During a Pandemic for Children with Cerebral Palsy

As a mother and a pediatrician, I’ve both felt the strain of pandemic parenting directly and indirectly. I’ve made decisions about my own family and sending our kids to daycare and school, and I’ve stayed up worrying about how parents are supposed to make these difficult choices with so little support.

Mother standing over her daughter while they look at something together.

July 1, 2020

What is Cerebral Palsy?

Cerebral palsy refers to a group of conditions that are caused by problems in brain development and that affect how movement and motor control happen in children. Problems with walking and talking are often the way people start a conversation about cerebral palsy.

Text says Cerebral Palsy is the most common lifelong motor disability caused by damage to the developing brain

July 1, 2020

Muscle Development & Early Intervention

Cerebral palsy is an injury to the brain, but what we find is that it has a lot of effects on how you use your muscles.

July 1, 2020

One Size Does NOT Fit All- Using Multiple Means For Communication

Let me tell you about multimodal communication. We, as typical communicators, all use many different strategies. We use speech, gestures, facial expressions, technology, and no-tech solutions. As communicators, we all size up the situation based upon our communication partners, the context, the environment and then we choose to use the most effective communication strategy.

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July 1, 2020

Tips For Getting the Right Amount of Exercise

For people with a physical disability, activity is a lifestyle. It's something that can start in physical therapy, but it really is something that has to be carried over into their everyday lives. What has happened over the years is we're understanding the importance of mobility.

Photo of Diane Damiano with words get some exercise written in pink

July 1, 2020

Common Causes of Pain

One of the things that we typically forget when we look at kids who have conditions like CP, is that they're first and foremost, children.

Drawing of tooth and ear with the words "toothaches, earaches, sore throats, and bellyaches"

July 1, 2020

What is the International Classification of Function?

The World Health Organization has developed the ‘International Classification of Function’. This gives us a way to think about any health condition. Here we can see many ideas that we need to think about with CP. We can also see how these many ideas are connected to one another.

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July 1, 2020

Key Facts - The Five E's of Early Intervention

Early interventions for CP should be based on the strongest possible scientific evidence for benefit and should have the smallest possible risk of harm. In the US, early intervention (EI) is a system of services available under the age of 3, to support infants and toddlers with developmental problems and their families as they interact with and care for their child.

Briana (Age 4) in therapy moving a puzzle piece with her PT

July 1, 2020

What is Gross Motor Function Classification System

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