Archive for the 'cerebral palsy facts' Category

How To Avoid Cerebral Palsy in your Baby

Interested in knowing what are the causes of cerebral palsy or why this happen to a baby? How to resolve this kind of abnormality? Cerebral palsy is the result of brain damage that occur during the full development of baby’s brain in womb.
Some mothers do not know that they are pregnant they tend to [...]

Social Security Disability and Cerebral Palsy

Individuals with severe Cerebral Palsy often do not have difficulty being approved for Social Security, but they still must go through the entire Social Security Disability application process. The disability listing (11.07) is very specific as to what is required before an applicant with Cerebral Palsy can be approved for disability. There are four main [...]

Cerebral Palsy - Preventable Birth Injury

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one out of nearly 280 births will result in the child being born with Cerebral Palsy. This is up from the previous number of one in nearly 670 born with the injury.

Cerebral Palsy is one of the most common motor disabilities in children. It happens [...]

Seven Types Of Treatments For Cerebral Palsy

At present there is no perfect treatment of cerebral palsy. However some treatment developed to reduce the severity of the cerebral palsy. There are many cases give positive results in the cerebral palsy. There are many therapies use to treat the cerebral palsy. It was notices that not all the therapies are applied on the [...]

Hiring A Medical Malpractice Lawyer for Your Erb’s Palsy Case

A family is typically flooded with emotions after the birth of their child, whether it be their first or their fifth, it is a moment in time that will forever be ingrained in their minds. Which is why it is heart wrenching for a mother and father to be informed that their newborn infant has [...]

Erb’s Palsy Lawsuits - An Overview

Currently, there are more Cerebral Palsy lawsuits in courts across America and in Europe than there are cases of Erb’s palsy, but some of the most recent successful birth injury cases have been coming from Erb’s Palsy litigation in which a child’s brachial paralysis, or arm paralysis, was preventable and the negligence of a physician [...]

Birth Injuries Tragic Form of Malpractice

Medical malpractice occurs when a physician or some other healthcare provider fails to act reasonably under the circumstances, and the unreasonable conduct results in harm. When a medical practitioner’s conduct hurts an infant, the malpractice is especially tragic.

While most of the 2.7% of births that result in a birth injury in the United States [...]

Hypotonia-Causes, Signs and Treatment

Hypotonia is more a description than a diagnosis. It is most often seen in newborns (congenital) and infants, but it may persist through adolescence into adulthood. Another name for infantile hypotonia is “floppy baby syndrome.” This refers to the tendency of a hypotonic infant’s arms, legs, and head to “flop,” or dangle loosely, when they [...]

Limb Problem: Facts about Spastic Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Palsy is a condition where muscles become uncontrollable due to lack of oxygen in the brain. There are four major types of cerebral palsy: spastic, athetoid, ataxic, and mixed.
Spastic cerebral palsy commonly affects the limb area of your body. The limbs get vulnerable when you are inflicted with this type of cerebral [...]

HYPOTONIC CEREBRAL PALSY

HYPOTONIC CEREBRAL PALSY – a disorder of the brain
Hypotonic Cerebral Palsy or Cerebral palsy is a very rare form of a disorder of the brain. It is a disorder involving the impairment of body movement and low muscle tone which is called hypotonic. Cerebral palsy sometimes affects a person’s intellectual ability to move [...]