Category Archives: Cerebral Palsy
Study Finds Mild Infections Do Not Increase Cerebral Palsy Risk
The medical community is continuously searching for factors that increase the risk of a child developing cerebral palsy. There are concerns that infections in a mother may raise the risk of cerebral palsy, but a new study has found that common colds and stomach flu are not tied to the birth defect. One of the study’s authors said that other more serious infections and factors like a woman’s history of miscarriage or a family history of cerebral palsy were associated with increased risk to babies, but even then, the risk was low. Pre-term birth, growth restrictions inside the uterus and being a twin or part of a larger set of multiples also increased the risk, as well as severe maternal infections. With 10,000 babies in the United States being born a year developing cerebral palsy, the continuing search for causes is likely to continue. The most significant infections linked to…
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Some Considerations For Disabled iPad Users
There has been a recent surge in the use of new technology for assisting in communication with sufferers of cerebral palsy, namely in Apple’s iPad. Some parents of children with cerebral palsy and other birth defects are finding great benefits in using the iPad to communicate with their child in ways they would have never imagined a few years ago. There are parents of disabled children who have gone so far as to design applications themselves, using their intimate knowledge of their child’s limitations to create programs that cater to it. Michael Brooks, the father of a daughter with cerebral palsy, set up a website called Mia’s Apps, where other families can download the apps he designed to communicate with his daughter. The practice of using apps has spread widely enough to create the need for workshops designed around teaching parents how to use technology like the iPad with their…
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Family Wins $29.1 Million In Cerebral Palsy Malpractice Lawsuit
Having a child diagnosed with cerebral palsy can be a life-shattering event, resulting in a lifetime of expensive medical bills and the loss of whatever visions of a “normal” future you might have held. When this condition is a result of negligence from a medical practitioner, a lawsuit is often the only reasonable course of action. The family of Christian Arroyo, born in 2003, filed a lawsuit stating that their son’s cerebral palsy and other birth defects were a result of negligent treatment by the government run clinic where he was born, and won a verdict for $29.1 million. Their complaint stated that their son suffered from a brain infection for 12 hours, and that he exhibited every symptom of a brain infection, but medical staff missed the signs and failed to treat him with antibiotics. The clinic, funded by the United States government, attempted to have the verdict thrown…
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