Whether you are a caregiver or an individual with CP, the decision to pursue a treatment or therapy can be daunting. Use this guide to help you sort through the hype and determine what might help.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a mental health treatment technique. This method involves moving your eyes a specific way while you process traumatic memories. EMDR's goal is to help you heal from trauma or other distressing life experiences.
On the days that having CP is challenging, it is extra important to take care of yourself, all those feelings and your body. When we can mention how we feel, then we figure out or manage what we need to feel better.
In this new series within Cerebral Palsy Health, Jen sits down with Nathalie Maitre, MD, PhD to talk about parenting, our shared experiences raising sons with CP and more!
This presentation from the 2023 AACPDM Community Forum presents and overview of the interactions between the types of Cerebral Palsy, Mental and Behavioral Health and various medications and strategies to treat challenging mental health disturbances.
The Research Works podcast is designed for health professionals in the area of child health, where we discuss emerging, modern, evidence based research.
Dr. Nathan Rosenberg discusses the importance of community participation as a big part of raising an individual with CP.
An update to the current understanding and potential of stem cell therapies for CP.
Intervention to improve function for children and young people with cerebral palsy needs to include client-chosen goals and whole-task practice of goals. Clinicians should consider child/family preferences, age, and ability when selecting specific interventions.
We studied how common pain was thought to be due to muscle spasticity in the legs or arms is in children/adolescents with CP.
It is important to understand how spasticity can impact the muscles and the know what treatments are available to help.
Are you wondering how spasticity impacts movement, mobility and function? What tools do physicians have in their tool box to treat spasticity and how do can you help to maximize the impact of these treatments? This virtual event covers it all featuring two of the leading experts in Spasticity and Spasticity Management.
CPF Executive Director Rachel Byrne and psychologist Gili Segall, PhD discuss mental health during these constantly changing times and how to create strategies to help everyone in the family thrive.
CPF Executive Director Rachel Byrne and Weinberg Cerebral Palsy Center social worker, Jan Moskowitz, discuss strategies for coping with anxiety and depression, especially during times of isolation.
CPF Executive Director Rachel Byrne and Mary Gannotti, PhD, PT discuss pain across the lifespan in cerebral palsy.
Pain in people with cerebral palsy is very common, and probably not evaluated frequently enough.
A lot of people with cerebral palsy will experience pain over the course of their life. Through better assessment we can provide better interventions, which will lead to a better quality of life.
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.
Adults with Cerebral Palsy have unique care needs related to physiological changes that occurred with growth and development with Cerebral Palsy, including mental health, yet experience many barriers to proper care.
CPF Executive Director Rachel Byrne talks with Lily Collison and her son Tommy about their journey with Cerebral Palsy, Lily's new book, Tommy's work and much more.
Nuestros discusiones educacionales continuó con un grupo de expertos el Jueves 25 de Marzo 2021. Este evento virtual contó con un panel de discusion multidisciplinario.
On this episode I talk with two of the world’s leading researchers… Dr. Madison Paton and Dr. Iona Novak on stem cell treatment for cerebral palsy. Stem Cells have been a hot topic in Cerebral Palsy for at least 15 years now, with many parents and researchers hoping that at the least, stem cells will lessen the impact of CP and at most hold the key to a cure. Dr. Paton and Dr. Novak will share their insider knowledge into this subject and help us sort through the hype and so we can hold onto our hope.
Our educational series continued with a panel of experts from Nationwide Children's Hospital on Monday, March 29th, 2021. This virtual event featured a multi-disciplinary panel discussion.
Our educational series continued with a panel of experts from Scottish Rite for Children and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center on Thursday, March 25th, 2021. This virtual event featured a multi-disciplinary panel discussion.