These are the main movement disorders seen in children with cerebral palsy. Collectively they now represent 10 to 15% of children with CP, but there is a much higher proportion […]
Athetosis, Choreoathetosis & Ataxia – Treat the Common Problem
A proportion of children with neonatal encephalopathy have damage to the brainstem nuclei and/or cerebellar damage. Depending upon the extent and site of damage, the child may have Ataxia, […]
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell – New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008
Malcolm Gladwell is one of my favorite writers. Each of his books has taught me to see the world in a slightly different way. Four years after my first reading […]
The Invisible Gorilla
The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons – New York: Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, 2009 Where is the invisible […]
Deep Water Jogging for Gait Training
Children with an early neurological problem learn their first movements with a damaged nervous system. Baby brains do recover, but it takes time. It is difficult to study the process […]