Happily, spastic cerebral palsy is also the most treatable form of CP, largely thanks to a procedure known as selective dorsal rhizotomy, in which the nerve roots that are causing .
Karen Killilea is a freckle-nosed little girl of eleven who falls down more than most youngsters: she has cerebral palsy.
The incidence of cerebral palsy in premature babies may be reduced by giving mothers magnesium sulfate, a common delivery-room drug, according to a new study.
UPDATE: wheelchair stolen from man with Cerebral Palsy found and returned On Saturday, a power wheelchair was stolen from 27-year-old Long Island native, Vinny Pinello, by two teenagers. Pinello suffers from Cerebral palsy and needed the wheelchair as it is essential to his daily life. A neighbor of the Pinello family …
June 12, 2013 - WPIX 11 New York
New surgical technique for Bell's palsy facial paralysis A surgeon is using electrical stimulation as part of an advanced surgical technique to treat Bell’s palsy, a condition that causes paralysis on one side of a patient’s face.
June 12, 2013 - Science Daily
Woman With Cerebral Palsy May Be Forced To Give Up Service Dog A service dog provider is suing a New York woman with cerebral palsy in an effort to take back the assistance animal they placed with her six years ago.
June 10, 2013 - Disability Scoop
David Cameron in Oxford Mail Witney MP Mr Cameron said: "I have a son with epilepsy and cerebral palsy and when I look at how he suffers and I think if you could do anything to stop him suffering and stop other children suffering, shouldn't we try?"
Jennifer Granholm in San Diego Union Tribune The best way to make this real for the administration and for Congress is to be united 50-strong, to say this is really important to people with cerebral palsy, people with cancer, people in nursing homes,said Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm,...
James Parkinson in Sydney Morning Herald Sufferers of what James Parkinson, the English doctor who first diagnosed the disease, called "the shaking palsy" are sometimes shunned due to awkward and uncontrolled movements, or mistaken for persons under the influence of alcohol or drugs.