Abbie Roth

In just one year, hospital teams working as part of a network to implement international cerebral palsy diagnosis guidelines successfully reduced average age at diagnosis from 19.5 months to 9.5 months.

How can busy clinicians tending to clinical care simultaneously conduct translational research and improve treatments for patients?

An easily derived Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination asymmetry score, in combination with the total HINE score, differentiates typically developing infants from those with hemiplegic CP.

Improved neonatal care and earlier diagnosis and management may instead be reason for a decrease in cerebral palsy severity.

Selective dorsal rhizotomy can provide life-changing results, but patients work hard in physical and occupational therapy to get there.