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Birth Trauma Attorneys Examine Costly Cerebral Palsy Surgery
In September, we blogged about selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR), a type of spinal surgery that allows children with cerebral palsy to walk. The surgery, while expensive, often produces successful results. After raising over £60,000, a family in the United Kingdom can send their son to the United States for the SDR operation. Nicholas Bamforth, 9, has cerebral palsy. He and his family hope that the SDR operation will allow him to walk and possibly play football for his school team, fulfilling a lifelong dream. His family is planning on flying to the U.S. and staying for five weeks while he recovers from the operation. His family is still raising money to cover his physiotherapy that will likely continue long after the operation. His mother Catherine said that the relief effort came at the perfect time. “Nicholas has really deteriorated this year and he is in a wheelchair pretty much all…
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Study: One in Two Children With Cerebral Palsy Has Speech Disorder
After studying 129 children with cerebral palsy, Swedish researchers found that half of them suffered from some form of speech difficulty; 21 percent had a speech disorder, and 32 percent were nonverbal. Cerebral palsy often results from errors during labor. The researchers think that the error’s timing plays a role in the speech disorder’s severity. They looked at the correlation between brain injuries sustained during birth or pregnancy and the resulting speech problems. “Lesions acquired late in gestation, around or after birth, were most common in the nonverbal group, while periventricular white matter lesions, acquired late in the second and early in the third trimester, were most common in children without speech disorders,” the research team wrote in its report. Speech problems are just one obstacle facing children with cerebral palsy. Others include limited mobility, paralysis, paraplegia, cognitive disorders and learning impairments. In many cases, proper medical care can foresee…
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