Cerebral Palsy

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Complications

Some people with CP have associated disorders, such as impaired intellectual development, seizures failure to grow and thrive, and vision and sense of touch problems.


Roughly a third of patients with CP also have mild intellectual impairment; another third are moderately or severely impaired; and the remainder, intellectually normal. Mental impairment is most common in children with spastic quadriplegia.


As many as half of all patients with cerebral palsy have seizu...Read the full article