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What is Cerebral Palsey
Cerebral Palsy is a catchall term for a variety of disorders that affect the brain, thus affecting the child's ability to move and maintain posture and balance. These disorders are caused by a brain injury occurring either before, during or after birth within the first few years of development. These injury does not affect the muscles or nerves connected to the spinal cord, it effects the brain's ability to control the muscles. Depending on the location and severity of the brain injury may lead to other medical problems such as:
Because cerebral palsy affects the way children develop it is know as a developmental disability. More people have cerebral palsy in the United States today then any other developmental disability including:
About two children out of every one thousand births in the United States have some type of Cerebral Palsy. Figures in the United States are showing that about 5,000 infants and toddlers, and between 1,200 to 1,500 preschoolers are diagnosed with cerebral palsy each year.
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