Cerebral palsy (CP) is a lifelong congenital condition that causes palsy, or impaired movements, due to brain damage at a very young age. Spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy (SQCP) is a severe type ...

Although spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy can affect mobility and mental health, your healthcare team is there to support you in finding solutions for your lifestyle. Spastic quadriplegia is a ...

Despite modern high-throughput sequencing, the genetic cause of most rare movement disorders remains unclear. A research team in Bochum and Tübingen has now solved one piece of the puzzle: The ...

While the term has been used as an ableist slur in numerous situations, and is considered derogatory in the United Kingdom among other places, it does not have the same connotations in African ...

After more than six decades in business, the Spastic Centre has renamed itself the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, arguing that these days the word spastic has too many negative connotations. To mark the ...

Readers, this might be a little premature but I think disabled people could be seeing a turnaround in their public image over the next few months. First of all, our reputation as good-for-nothing ...

Spastic paraplegia (SP) in hereditary form is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of diseases with distinctive features of axonal degeneration in corticospinal tracts. Progressive ...

There is no cure for the rare disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), but researchers from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and the UMass Chan Medical School have achieved ...