This powerful, practical book is meant to help children and adults have meaningful discussions about disability and ableism.
Too often, people with disabilities are relegated to being passive when it comes to the arts.
It is important to understand how spasticity can impact the muscles and the know what treatments are available to help.
This systematic review looks at all available evidence for pharmacological/neurosurgical interventions for managing dystonia in individuals with cerebral palsy to inform the AACPDM care pathway.
I spent many years and many hours learning how to make the body work better, how to bring it out of pain. But that's not the human being alone.
There are so many different causes for potential pain that it can be hard to find the cause. If you have CP or are a parent of someone with CP it is really important to empower yourself with information on pain including what causes it and options for treatment. You need to work out what is causing the pain not just mask it with pain medication.
When it comes to preparing your child for Botulinum Toxin injections, the first most important thing to remember is to know your child.
When we have a physical disability, our bones can get a bit weak or osteoporotic. Something that can be improved is promoting bone health for people with cerebral palsy.
It is important to understand the brain injury for each individual person, because they can be really different. Where the injury is can give us important clues to what motor problems that individual will have. The time you have the biggest risk to having a stroke is as a baby, not as an adult so it is important to understand what may be happening in the infants brain.
