Spastic hemiplegia is a type of spastic cerebral palsy, where the part of the brain controlling movement is damaged. The condition can affect children before birth, during labor, or in the first few ...

Cerebral Palsy has been linked to a condition called cryptorchidism in males - when one or both of the testicles are not present in the scrotum. A new study in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved expanded use of Dysport to treat upper- and lower-limb spasticity – including that caused by cerebral palsy – for patients as young as 2 years and older, ...

The study used 2016-2020 information from the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS), an administrative database that includes more than 49 children's hospitals. The authors stratified study ...

The FDA has approved the expanded use of Botox® (onabotulinumtoxinA; Allergan) for the treatment of spasticity in pediatric patients aged ≥2 years, including those with lower limb spasticity caused by ...

"I thought that once I had the baby, it would just kind of be game over for me with my mobility and my life," Kiaira Fedorus tells PEOPLE Jon Jozef/Jon Jozef Photography Kiaira Fedorus, now 23, was ...

Evidence-based recommendations on selective dorsal rhizotomy for spasticity in cerebral palsy. This involves cutting nerves in the lower spine that are responsible for muscle rigidity. Interventional ...