Marking Disability Rights Awareness Month, Jessica van der Merwe delves into the inspiration behind her autobiography ‘Broken ...
In short, Bell's palsy is a facial paralysis condition, thought to impact around 20-30 per 100,000 people (or 1 in 60 at some ...
Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a brain disorder present at birth affecting movement, muscle tone or posture. It is defined as brain ...
Bradley Nelson was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and epilepsy in 2016, and his father, Darren Spreadbury, was convicted of ...
A 6-year-old boy with cerebral palsy is learning how to communicate with the help of a computer program and device that reads his brain signals.
Cerebral palsy lawyers work with families to determine if their child’s condition may have been caused by medical malpractice. If a health care professional made a mistake before, during, or after ...
The anterior cerebral artery supplies blood to parts of the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain. Also known as the ACA, it is one of a pair of arteries essential to delivering oxygen to the brain.
“Is this treatment right for my child?” This is a question parents of children with cerebral palsy (CP) grapple with daily. It can be especially scary when the treatment you’re considering is surgery.
A few doses of caffeine during the perinatal period may help prevent cerebral palsy and related neurodevelopmental disorders that are rooted in lack of oxygen to the brain near the time of birth, a ...
Scope’s new advert looks at the challenges faced by disabled people every day and what we can do to help create a more equal world for those with a disability (Picture: Richie Hopson) ‘We’re ...