Twenty-three of the 27 children (85 percent) with cerebral palsy also had windswept hips, a hallmark feature in CP patients marked by one hip facing outward and the other one rotated inward. Children ...

AURORA - Jillian August is walking 20-percent faster than she did 10 years ago. That is a huge accomplishment for a 24-year-old with cerebral palsy. "Even though cerebral palsy is a pediatric onset ...

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EMS providers can play an important role in a patient’s ongoing care and safety. Scene observations of poor or unsafe living conditions, interaction with exhausted caregivers and suspicions of abuse ...

Cerebral palsy, a non-progressing motor impairment that begins in early childhood, has widely been viewed as the result of oxygen deprivation during birth or other birth-related factors such as ...

Dr. Jan Brunstrom-Hernandez gently but sternly admonishes a teenage cerebral palsy patient who clearly hasn't been doing his exercises, stressing the importance of keeping muscles loose and limber.

Children with cerebral palsy frequently undergo invasive surgeries -- lengthening tendons, rotating bones, transferring muscles to new locations -- in hopes of improving their physical ability to walk ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Seven-year-old Ivy Rogers from Australia has become the 4,000th patient at St. Louis Children's Hospital to take steps after ...

Scientists have identified mutations in single genes that can be responsible for at least some cases of cerebral palsy, according to a new study led by researchers. The study indicates that many of ...

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Beautiful, brightly-colored paintings decorate the halls of Boston's area hospitals thanks to a woman with a mission to bring smiles to sick patients.Cristina Powell was diagnosed with cerebral palsy ...