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No longer alone with cerebral palsy
There are about 764,000 children and adults in the United States who live with cerebral palsy. Clownhouse dvd The War of the Worlds full movie Towed in a Hole hd On St. Estatuis, a remote island in the Caribbean, there is only one: 4-year-old Christopher Simmons. Simmons was born four months premature, and spend three months in the hospital after his birth. For four years, he was the only person on the island with cerebral palsy. The Borrowers movie Back to the Future Part III full movie New Nightmare psp The Lena Baker Story movie download Tears of the Sun release Blood Trails move The Backwoods film However, Simmons’ mother heard about a new student at the local university who also had the disorder. Simmons’ mother found Tyler Sexton, the student, and brought him to see her son. "He was in a wheelchair that didn’t fit," Tyler Sexton recalled. "He…
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Rare Cockayne Syndrome resembles Cerebral Palsy
When Marie Hiagler had her first child, Brianna, she was born just like any normal child. Soon after her birth, however, her mother found that something was not so normal–Brianna spit up whatever she drank. She also threw up whatever she managed to swallow. The Interpreter movie download Dr. Dolittle 2 movie Her confused doctors said the child suffered from terrible reflux. Brianna failed to progress like other infants her age; she never was able to crawl of even roll over. After Brianna turned 1, a doctor found calcification in her brain area and diagnosed her with cerebral palsy, but the child didn’t gain weight and had a much smaller head than children with cerebral palsy. Eventually Brianna was diagnosed with an aggressive form of a rare premature aging disease called Cockayne Syndrome. Bugsy Malone download Punisher: War Zone movie download Penelope video Love and Bullets divx We Own the…
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Research Shows Rehabilitation Benefits of Using Nintendo's Wii
Spartacus the movie An article that will be published in the October 2008 print edition of the American Physical Therapy Association’s journal Physical Therapy details the case study of a teen afflicted with cerebral palsy who uses Nintendo’s Wii as part of his physical therapy. Titan A.E. buy Researchers noted measurable improvement in visual-perceptual processing, postural control, and functional mobility after 11 training sessions over a four-week period using the popular digital gaming system. The 13 year-old continued his normal physical therapy during the sessions. The Witches of Eastwick buy It’s a Wonderful Life To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first published report on using the Wii for rehabilitation, though there have been numerous press reports about use of the Wii in clinical settings as well as some scientific articles on the physiological effects of using the Wii. Throttle ipod The report underscores how important it is that victims…
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