Cerebral palsy: causes and treatment alternatives, based on the evidence provided by gait analysis

Abstract

An international review3 of “The Definition and Classification of Cerebral Palsy” in 2006 defines CP as: “A group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing foetal or infant brain. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy are often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, perception, cognition, communication, and behaviour, by epilepsy, and by secondary musculoskeletal problems.”