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Cerebral palsy (CP) describes a group of permanent disorders of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, which is attributed to nonprogressive disturbances that occurred in the develo** fetal or immature brain. The terminology “cerebral palsy” was first mentioned by Sir William Osler in his classic 1889 monograph “The Cerebral Palsies of Children” (Osler 1889). Rosenbaum and Bax proposed a definition for cerebral palsy a decade ago. This definition is rooted in the WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Health, and Disability framework (World Health Organization 2001). Afterwards, this definition has been widely and consistently used in research, clinical, rehabilitation, and health services.
Although CP affects children early in fetal or neonatal periods, most of the affected children are now expected to live to adulthood (Brooks et al. 2014a). Compared with those without CP, adults with CP are also more...
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Yang, J., Zhao, L., Li, Y., Xu, Y. (2020). Cerebral Palsy. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M.E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_1051-1
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