Category Archives: Cerebral Palsy Treatment

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Natalia Vodianova has been the face of Calvin Klein campaigns and shes graced the cover of Vogue. Shes also the founder of the Naked Heart Foundation whose mission is to support people with disabilities. The organization has many projects, including funding dozens of all-inclusive play parks in Russia and creating support networks for families of children with disabilities. Staff and faculty from the University of New Mexicos departments of neurology, physical therapy, speech and language therapy, and from Carrie Tingley Hospital are participating in a Naked Heart Foundation program aimed at bringing new ideas about working with children with special needs and their families to facilities in Russia through international exchange experiences. We want to learn modern approaches to working with children with disabilities, said Tatiana Morozova, a child psychologist from St. Petersburg who is on the Naked Heart Foundation board and an adjunct professor in the Neurology Department at the University of New Mexico. Morozova, fellow Naked Heart Foundation board member Svyatoslav Dovbnya, a St. Petersburg child neurologist, and a group of physicians and therapists from a hospital in the city … Continue reading →

Irish youngster Rory Gallagher has went viral with his fundraising campaign for life-changing treatment in America - while wearing a Celtic kit. The four-year-old has cerebral palsy and his parents were told at eight months old that he would never talk or walk. However, against all odds Rory can now talk and the Gallagher family have set their next target on walking. Rory - who can be seen to be wearing his Celtic top in snaps on his page - requires double hip surgeries as well as Femoral Osteotomy surgery. This has to be carried out on both of his thigh bones at the Boston Children's Hospital at a cost of a staggering 121,334. So far the family have raised just over 58K. He has now appealed to the Parkhead side on Twitter - and has been applauded by fans from both side of Glasgow. A Hoops supporter commented on Twitter: "Well done Rory keep up the fight - we are all behind you." Another added: "Go on Rory you show them." A Rangers fan added: "From a Rangers fan, this is awesome! What a wee warrior he is!" Following the popular tweet the family thanked the public for their … Continue reading →

Dorothea D. Jenkins, M.D., the senior author on the Neuropharmacology article, is a neonatologist at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. Credit: Medical University of South Carolina. Sarah Pack. Hypothermia alone, the current standard of care, neuroprotects roughly 50 percent of newborns with moderate to severe hypoxic ischemia. Therefore, half of all affected newborns are left with developmental, cognitive and motor delays including cerebral palsy following injury. Clearly, newer therapies are needed that can be given in combination with hypothermia to improve outcomes. In preclinical studies, hypothermia and anti-oxidant treatment with N-acetylcysteine (NAC) are neuroprotective following neonatal hypoxic ischemia in females, but less so in males. Addition of vitamin D to hypothermia and NAC following neonatal hypoxic ischemia improves functional outcomes and preserves brain volume in male rodents, report researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in the September 1, 2017 issue of Neuropharmacology. "These treatments may attack the problem from different angles, helping different cells at different stages of recovery," says Dorothea Jenkins, M.D., a professor and clinician in the Department of Pediatrics at MUSC and the senior author of the article. Hypothermia affects several different mechanisms of injury and has been shown in … Continue reading →

In July, BNS staff writerPatricia Inacio wrote a story discussing why and where children with cerebral palsy need more pain management. The article states that children with CP often have pain that is overlooked by caregivers and therapists. It discusses the importance of assessing the pain level of achild because pain occurs frequently and can be made worse by treatments. Reading this instantly struck a chord with me; I definitely was that child, and at the time I did not have the vocabulary to put into words how I was feeling. But thestudythis article was based on focused only on children with severe cerebral palsy and those who were non-ambulatory. While I found the research to be educational and accurate, these 240 children are not enough to get the full picture, and readers could miss out on a wealth of information about everyone on the cerebral palsy spectrum. I have a mild case of cerebral palsy. I walk with a limp and use various assistive devices depending on what I need at the time. While I also have hip and joint pain, like the children in this study, people like me werent discussed. Recently, I was having a conversation with … Continue reading →

RUBY MACANDREW Last updated11:40, September 1 2017 SUPPLIED An pioneering spinal surgery overseas could help give Hugo a better chance of living a more normal life. Wellington boy Hugo Simmons has a shot at living a normal, pain-free life but it comes with a hefty price tag $120,000 to be exact. Hugo, 3, has spastic quadriplegia, a type of cerebral palsy which means both his arms and legs are very tight, making walking and other simple tasks difficult and painful. Currently, he gets around in a wheelchair with help from his mum, Kerry Simmons, but that could all change thanks to a life-changing surgery in the United States. ROBERT KITCHIN/STUFF Christine Simmons hopes Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) surgery in America will help her grandson Hugo, 3, walk independently. "If he has the surgery, it should help him function in a more natural normal way, giving hope that he will eventually walk instead of being confined to a wheelchair," Simmons said. READ MORE:*Toddler's surgery put on hold as she prepares for different operation*Mila's mum encourages parents to educate kids who call her 'weird' about cerebral palsy*Ministry approves cannabis treatment for 7-year-old girl The spinal surgery, known as Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR), … Continue reading →

TheChronicleHerald.ca Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's excited about having two ministers teaming up on the Indigenous Affairs ... TheChronicleHerald.ca Canadian golfer Brooke Henderson finished tied for 12th at the CP Women's Open in Ottawa on Sunday. The 19-year-old from Smiths Falls, ... Jadine Baldwin says some people don't see her as a person due to her cerebral palsy. Baldwin and another teen, ... and more » Read the rest here: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's excited about having two ministers teaming up on the Indigenous Affairs ... - TheChronicleHerald.ca … Continue reading →

Every six months, Bendigos Lily-Rose Sparkes dons a happy mask. ALL SMILES: Five-year-old Lily-Rose Sparkes with Associate Professor Adam Scheinberg at Bendigo Health. Picture: DARREN HOWE Lily-Rose Sparkes, 5, with Associate Professor Adam Scheinberg. Picture: DARREN HOWE Lily-Rose Sparkes, 5, with Associate Professor Adam Scheinberg. Picture: DARREN HOWE Lily-Rose Sparkes, 5, with Associate Professor Adam Scheinberg. Picture: DARREN HOWE Every six months, BendigosLily-Rose Sparkes dons a happy mask as she undergoes treatment to allow her to walk properly. The bubblyfive-year-old says as she goeson tippy toes she has to visit the hospital, where doctors give her a mask for happy gas and follow through with a series of injections in her calves to help her walk. Lily has cerebral palsy and has been receivingbotulinum toxintreatments since she was two years old. Mum,Mia Smith, said they first realised Lily was having trouble about six months after she started to walk. Without this treatment, she wouldnt be able to walk correctly, she said. She would be always walking on her tippy toes and wouldnt be able to climb or do some of the basic things people think kids can just do. Ms Smith said the treatments gave Lilythe opportunity to be able … Continue reading →

In Gerald Grants line of work, there isnt such a thing as an average patient. As a chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Stanford University Medical Center, the children that come into his operating room are unique, each requiring a complex surgical procedure tailored to the architecture of a young brain. But that doesnt mean he cant learn from what other people have done. Grants always searching for similar cases to give his patients the best possible shot. And more and more hes finding those answers not in prestigious, paywalled publications like the Journal of Neurosurgery (of whose editorial board he is a member), but on the freely available pages of an upstart publishing platform modeled after, of all things, Turbotax. The Cureus Journal of Medical Science (thats pronounced curious) is the brainchild of one of Grants colleagues at Stanford, a fellow neurosurgeon named John Adler. Hes on a mission to build the worlds most comprehensive library of medical case studies. Cureus is the first and only peer-reviewed publication with step-by-step article templates for authorswhich dramatically speeds up publication times. (Just like your tax software!) If case studies are published in weeks instead of months, that means millions more medical lessons … Continue reading →

A new study has shown great potential for using robotic exoskeletons to physically train young sufferers of cerebral palsy to walk. Cerebral palsy is an umbrella terms for a range of neurological and movement disorders that develop during early life. According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, it is the most common motor disability in childhood, with global figures ranging from 1.5 to more than 4 per 1,000 live births or children of a defined age range. Sufferers usually walk with their knees in constant flexion, in a gait known as crouch gait. This basically means that their legs cannot straighten fully as they walk. This is often treated using physical stimulation, injections and surgery. The problem is that even with the current treatments available, children with the debilitating condition still end up losing their mobility as they approach adulthood. According to the paper published from this study, half of all children with cerebral palsy completely lose the ability to walk by adulthood. The study, run a team of biomedical engineers of the National Institute of Health, hopes to prove that using robotic exoskeletons could help to train childrens bodies to keep their mobility into later life. In … Continue reading →

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cerebral palsy (CP)caused by neurological damage before, during or after birthis the most common movement disorder in children, limiting mobility and independence throughout their lives. An estimated 500,000 children in the U.S. have CP. Although nearly 60 percent of children with the disorder can walk independently, many have crouch gait, a pathological walking pattern characterized by excessive knee bending, which can cause an abnormally high level of stress on the knee. Crouch gait can lead to knee pain and progressive loss of function and is often treated through invasive orthopedic surgery. Assistant professor ofmechanical engineering Zach Lerner, who joined Northern Arizona Universitys Center for Bioengineering Innovation in 2017, recently published a study in the journalScience Translational Medicine investigating whether wearing a robotic exoskeletona leg brace powered by small motorscould alleviate crouch gait in children with cerebral palsy. We evaluated a novel exoskeleton for the treatment of crouch gait, one of the most debilitating pathologies in CP, Lerner said. In our exploratory, multi-week trial, we fitted seven participants between the ages of five and 19 with robotic exoskeletons designed to increase their ability to extend their knees at specific phases in the … Continue reading →