Costa prayed an addition and remodel to his home in New Castle would ease his discomfort. Instead, he and his wife Susan now ...

Study objective Investing in health to improve healthy life expectancy (HLE) is fundamental to create a demographic dividend. However, how dramatic population ageing affects HLE remains unknown. This ...

I've got cerebral palsy but it won't stop me from tackling the Great North Run By Chris Cordner Digital specialist in nostalgia Comment Published 19th Jun 2025, 12:06 BST ...

Comedian and writer Rosie Jones has never let cerebral palsy hold her back and, as her brilliant (and controversial) new sitcom in which she plays an unlikely drug mule reveals, disabilities ...

Spasticity (muscle tightness) is common in children with cerebral palsy, and it can cause discomfort and difficulty during movement. Selective dorsal rhizotomy addresses spasticity by cutting select ...

From 2008 to 2010, the gap was 4.1 years, whereas between 2017 and 2019, the life expectancy gap grew to eight years.

A Cwmbran man with Athertoid cerebral palsy is raising money to transform his garden. William Spanswick, 39, has launched a GoFundMe. Victoria Watkins, William’s mum, said: “He is well known in the ...

ABSTRACT International studies indicate that gross motor function can influence the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of adults with Cerebral Palsy (CP). However, HRQoL is a complex construct ...

The term cerebral palsy (CP) is frequently used to designate a large number of clinical conditions which have in common a specific and non-progressive lesion in the immature brain.¹ It is related, ...

According to the Cleveland Clinic, cerebral palsy is a neurological condition affecting muscle tone, posture, and movement caused by brain damage during fetal development or early infancy. In the ...