CPIRF co-sponsors ‘Themes in Neurorehabilitation: CP Across the Lifespan’
CPIRF is proud to co-sponsor a two-day workshop entitled ‘Themes in Neurorehabilitation: CP Across the Lifespan’ at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD on November 5 and 6th 2010. Dr. Mindy Aisen, CPIRF’s Medical Director, will be giving the keynote address. Come learn about the best-evidence practices for the treatment of the medical, rehabilitative [...]
Injury to the Preterm Brain and Cerebral Palsy – Part 1: Clinical Aspects of Injury to the Preterm Brain
March 2010 Fact Sheet Leading neuroscientists, clinicians, radiologists, neurobiologists, and pediatric neurologists came together for a symposium entitled “Injury to the Preterm Brain and Cerebral Palsy” in conjunction with the 37th Annual Meeting of the Child Neurology Society on November 5th, 2008. The symposium was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Child Neurology Society, [...]
ACPOC 2010 Annual Meeting
CPIRF is pleased to co-sponsor the 2010 Association of Children’s Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinics’ Annual Meeting at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, FL June 2nd through the 5th. Click here for meeting agenda. CPIRF’s Medical Director Dr. Mindy Aisen and orthopedic surgeons Drs. Laura Tosi and Kevin Murphy will hold a symposium entitled ‘ . Cerebral Palsy: Pediatric [...]
Stride for Cerebral Palsy Awareness
Many thanks to Heather Fawcett for organizing both a 5k and a kids race on September 9, 2009 at Sunset Park in Pennsylvania to benefit CPIRF. Heather belongs to a National community service organization called Alpha Phi Omega that helped her put the event together. In all, they had 45 runners and raised over $300 [...]
AAN Releases Guidelines on Treatment of Spasticity
25 January 2010
The American Academy of Neurology, an international professional association of more than 21,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, has just published new clinical guidelines on the treatment of spasticity in children and adolescents with Cerebral Palsy. Click here to read their press release. These guidelines were developed after a rigorous review of the medical literature by [...]
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Critique of Alternative Therapies for Children with Developmental Disabilities
14 January 2010
Dr. Pedro Weisler, a child neurologist at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH just published a commentary in Clinical Pediatrics discussing 3 Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) treatments for children with developmental disorders. The following are highlights from his paper. CAM is defined as “ a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices [...]
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Fact Sheet Catalog
31 December 2009
Below you’ll find a list of fact sheets we have been accumulating for more than a decade on Cerebral Palsy Research. The articles are laid out first by category then subdivided with the most recent at the top of each category. Look out for new fact sheets every month! General Recent Developments in Healthcare for CP: [...]
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Editorial on Cord Blood for treatment of CP
10 December 2009
In the October 2009 edition of the Annals of Neurology there is an editorial regarding the sensationalized reporting on the success of cord blood therapy for the treatment of cerebral palsy. The principal investigator of the Duke study is interviewed along with other prominent pediatric neurologists and stem cell researchers on the concerns and guarded optimism [...]
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CEREBRAL PALSY ON THE TODAY SHOW!
03 December 2009
The Today Show featured a segment on cerebral palsy and robotic therapy. The segment showed footage from CPIRF’s project at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, NY featuring upper extremity robotic therapy and from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago where we held a joint workshop on ‘Transformational Technologies’, to get the research community interested in using [...]
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Adults with CP Workshop
22 October 2009
The Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology Supplement on “Adults with CP workshop” is now available. Please go to this link to download entire content: The Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology Supplement on “Adults with CP workshop”
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Dr. Mindy Aisen Speaks at the 63rd AACPDM
05 October 2009
Dr. Mindy Aisen gave a plenary talk at the 63rd AACPDM Annual Meeting on September 26th in Scottsdale, Arizona. Her talk was entitled ‘ Updating Research Priorities for Cerebral Palsy’. Download her Power Point Presentation here. (Problems? Try right-clicking and “Save Target As…”)
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Gary Lynn to Receive 2009 Mayor’s Disability Advocate of the Year Award
04 October 2009
Gary Lynn, CPRIF’s Ambassador at Large, was chosen by the City of Houston to receive the 2009 Mayor’s Disability Advocate of the Year Award. The award committee noted his ‘efforts to remove barriers for people with disabilities and to be a voice for those unable to effectively represent themselves’. They went on to state ‘your [...]
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CPIRF announces a RFA for studying electrical stimulation in CP
04 October 2009
CPIRF supports several US based clinical research programs which explore new ways in which 21st Century Technologies can be combined with new concepts in brain plasticity and the value of intensive repetitive motor practice to enhance and optimize neurological development. By sharing knowledge across disciplines and studying ways to use these technologies to provide an [...]
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Cell – Based Therapies for the Treatment of Cerebral Palsy
01 October 2009
October 2009 Fact Sheet Human periventricular white matter injury (PWMI) is the predominant form of brain damage and the leading cause of life-long neurological disability from cerebral palsy in survivors of premature birth. The two major causes of PWMI are thought to be: chorioamnionitis, which can induce fetal inflammatory response, and hypoxia/ischemia (H/I), which [...]
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