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Spastic Hemiplegia - Articles
Ankle Ligaments in Children with Hemiplegia
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Your Therapy Source
Posted
Tue 05 Feb 2013 2:34pm
The Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine published research comparing lateral ankle ligaments between the unaffected and affected leg in children with spastic hemiplegia cerebral palsy. Eight children with a mean age of 5.2 years old underwent sonograms of the anterior talofibular ligament and calcaneofibular ligament and the anterior talofibu ...
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Bracing and Hemiplegia
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Your Therapy Source
Posted
Wed 16 Mar 2011 9:03pm
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology published research on the use of a wrist and thumb brace on bimanual activities in children with hemiplegia cerebral palsy. Twenty five children with spastic hemiplegia cerebral palsy (with mild to moderate hand deformity) performed bimanual activities wearing a brace and not wearing a brace. Assessmen ...
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Reports, Reports and more Reports!
by
Sarah
Posted
Mon 24 May 2010 11:06pm
Okay all Australian Mums of Special Needs children...please take notice!
After lodging all Violet's reports except her Psych Report, the Department of Education rang me last Friday to say Violet will not be eligible for Vision Support at School, as her Vision Report from Vision Australia says her near vision is 3/5 in her right eye even t ...
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CP Awareness Day!
by
Joe and Leanna
Posted
Wed 06 May 2009 1:33pm
Today is National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day!
- There is currently no cure for cerebral palsy and in most cases, it is not preventable. In over 50 years, treatments for CP have not progressed much at all. In fact, today, there remains little consensus among medical professionals regarding what causes CP or how best to treat it. Why do 800,00 ...
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Gross Motor Function and Manual Abilities in Cerebral Palsy
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Your Therapy Source
Posted
Tue 13 Nov 2012 4:00am
The Journal of Child Neurology published research on the relationship between gross motor function and manual ability in cerebral palsy. Three hundred thirty two (332) Canadian children with cerebral palsy were included in the study. There was moderate overall agreement between the Gross Motor Function Classification System and Manual Abi ...
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Blue? White? Wheelchair?
by
EBreedlove
Posted
Thu 30 Jul 2009 12:00am
On Monday, when I was on my way to the doctor, we stopped to get gas.
I looked out the window to my right and saw the all-too-familiar symbol. The blue, the white, and the wheelchair. Reading underneath the universal symbol, the station had indicated that if a vehicle had a state issued "handicapped" parking indicator, they would pump ga ...
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Use of Thumb Splint in Children with Hemiplegia
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Your Therapy Source
Posted
Mon 12 Dec 2011 9:58am
Clinical Rehabilitation published research on the functional abilities of 7 children (ages 2-7) with unilateral cerebral palsy who used a neoprene thumb opponens splint (McKie splint). The children were followed for 4 months - about one month baseline, 2 months intervention and one month follow up. Goal attainment scaling and visual analog scal ...
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MS and Muscle Spasticity
by
imicsome
Posted
Sun 11 Jan 2009 5:26pm
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This ia what muscle spasticity looks like.
As I'm already blogging before 6 am on a morning that did NOT require me to be up all freaking night for a job related issue, it can mean only one thing. MS strikes again. I'm irritable, tired, frustrated, sore and pissed off. That being said, I'll move on. No two people are effected by MS in the same ...
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Addressing Severe MS Spasticity
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stuart
Posted
Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:24pm
Teleconference to Address Severe Spasticity
Dr. Bhupendra O. Khatri will discuss treatment options for spasticity suffered by people with MS August 12 at 7 p.m. Eastern Time (6 p.m. Central Time, 5 p.m. Mountain Time and 4 p.m. Pacific Time).
Those wishing to participate must register to receive an email with the toll-free number that wil ...
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Sativex Shows Significant Spasticity Improvement, UK
by
stuart
Posted
Sun 15 Mar 2009 4:27pm
Medical News Today
15 Mar 2009
GW Pharmaceuticals has announced plans to submit an application to market its cannabis-based multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment, Sativex, in the UK.
This follows the announcement this week of study results, which showed that in nearly three-quarters of people with MS taking a fixed dose of Sativex, there ...
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