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Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy (CP) describes a group of disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy are often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, cognition, communication, perception and/or behaviour, and/or by a seizure disorder.1

Cerebral palsy affects 1.5 to 2.5 children per 1000 live births.2

1. Bax M, Goldstein M, Rosenbaum P, Leviton A, Paneth N. (2005). Proposed definition and classification of cerebral palsy, April 2005. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 47: 571-576.

2. Shevell MI, Majnemer A, Morin I. (2003). Etiologic yield of cerebral palsy: a contemporary case series. Pediatric Neurology. Vol. 28 (5), p. 352-359.

To obtain this article, contact the Cerebral Palsy Consortium at the following Web site: www.consortiumpc.ca.