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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

October 27, 2021

It's OK to ask!

It’s SMART to think about what you might want to discuss at your next doctor’s appointment. Here are some suggestions

A young woman sits in front of a brick wall in a wheel chair smiling off to the right. Drawn pink squiggles surround her.

July 2, 2020

Spasticity Treatment in Cerebral Palsy

Spasticity is usually caused by central nervous system injuries, such as brain injuries or spinal cord injuries. Spasticity is a little different from stiffness.

July 1, 2020

Sexual and reproductive health guideline for providers treating young women with cerebral palsy.

This fact sheet is a sexual and reproductive health guideline for providers treating young women with cerebral palsy.

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

Teen Years

As we all know, becoming a teenager means significant upheaval, not only physically, but in terms of friendships, in terms of learning, and life outlook. This is also true for adolescents with cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities. We know that whilst we may of spent a lot of time focusing on their physical abilities and other difficulties it is not the only part of their life.

Representation of three friends with arms around each others shoulders

July 1, 2020

CP: The Early Years

Around the age of six all children are going off to school. Children move from explorative play, which is fairly informal to a much more formal day. That can be a lengthy day and it's quite structured. There are a lot of challenges faced by children with cerebral palsy throughout the school year.

A screenshot from the YouTube video, "The Early Years"

July 1, 2020

A sexual and reproductive health guideline for young women with cerebral palsy

It’s SMART to think about what you might want to discuss at your next doctor’s appointment. Here are some suggestions

An image of three people on a pink and purple background

July 1, 2020

Muscle Tone & Early Development

When treating a child with CP, part of a pediatrician’s job is assessing and treating children with abnormal tone difficulties, as well as other muscular-skeletal problems. From around the age of two years, kids start to develop difficulties with muscle tone that can have an impact on their hip development.

Tylynn one year old, with pink birthday hat on

July 1, 2020

Building Your Care Team- The People You May Meet

When first meeting a parent who's had a child newly diagnosed with cerebral palsy, I really want to try and help them understand their baby. It can be difficult for parents to take it in all at once and many leave that first interview quite overwhelmed, but you're going to meet some really important and helpful people.

July 1, 2020

Causes of Drooling and Different Treatment Options

The two main types of drooling are anterior and posterior

July 1, 2020

What is Neuroplasticity?

Babies develop about 80% of their brain growth over the first two years of life, and it's also when all the connections in the brain, what we call the white matter, which is the cables in the brain, grow and develop and connect to the cortex.

Outline of child's head outlining brain connections that relate to neuroplasticity

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

Optimizing Neuroplasticity

A lot of parents don't realize that their baby, all the skills that they have. So they can look at you, they can follow you. They're already starting to imitate you, and through the first few months of life, they're already starting to learn to reach and grasp toys, and to have nonverbal communication with you.

Drawing of child sitting down picking toys out of a box

July 1, 2020

What is Gross Motor Function Classification System

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