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This year, turn your celebration into an opportunity for friends and family to raise funds for CP Research Network September and October are two of the biggest birthday months of the year. As families and friends gather to celebrate another trip around the sun, many people are looking for meaningful ways to mark the occasion….
March is Cerebral Palsy (CP) Awareness Month in the United States and we want you to share your story. Awareness of CP is vitally important to get our society to recognize the physical and social challenges, medical costs and needs of people living with CP. Awareness helps us advance research, educate doctors, nurses, school systems,…
This year, our annual CP Awareness Month photo contest allows you to compete for the same great prizes, but includes the option to fundraise to support our work as well! Photos tell stories without words, but we want our community members to narrate their own stories around who they are and their relationship…
Soon after Jay Pande was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at nine months, his parents quickly started familiarizing themselves with current CP research. His mom, Poonam, and his dad, Girish, are both pharmaceutical scientists, so their attitude toward treatment reflected their clinical backgrounds. “We have always approached the treatment of my CP with a focus on…
Dr. Bhooma Aravamuthan says she fell in love with treating children with cerebral palsy (CP) as an undergrad. Previously, she had been drawn to adult neurology. Her uncle had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and Aravamuthan, now Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Neurology at Washington University in St. Louis, had been keen to…
Eventually, Josephine would be released from the neonatal intensive care unit and sent home with her parents, Nina and Zach. But for the first seven weeks of her life, she fought to survive. Born postmature at 42 weeks, she experienced oxygen loss, resulting in Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), which commonly leads to cerebral palsy (CP)….
Amy F. Bailes, PT PhD is the Director of Physical Therapy Research at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and an Associate Professor in the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Rehabilitation, Exercise, & Nutrition Sciences. Her clinical work focuses primarily on the care of children with CP, while her research involves how physical therapy services…
If you subscribe to the idea that the baby boomer generation officially started in 1946, then Duncan Wyeth was truly one of the first—he was born in March of that year, just thirteen months after his father had come home from World War II, wounded during the Battle of Anzio. At a hefty 10 pounds…
Dr. Edward A. Hurvitz is Chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at the University of Michigan Medical School. He is a physiatrist by training, specializing in pediatric rehabilitation medicine. But as the children he worked with grew up, he became increasingly focused on adults with childhood-onset disabilities, particularly cerebral palsy (CP)….
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