Can We Rethink Cerebral Palsy Definition

Abstract

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of physical disability in childhood, someway representing the reverse side of neonatal mortality. CP affects more than 17 million people worldwide. In countries with advanced health systems, one child every 500-700 births is affected by CP approximately. The interpretation of CP nature, as it is still proposed internationally (starting from Mac Keith et al. 1956 to Rosenbaum 2007: Cerebral palsy describes a group of disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, which are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing foetal or infant brain …) is no longer acceptable because defective for four important bias at least.