Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy Report Similar Quality Of Life To Other Kids

Monday, October 6, 2014 - 19:40 in Health & Medicine

Cerebral palsy is the most common motor disability in childhood, afflicting between between 1 and 4 per 1,000 kids born worldwide. It's more common among boys than girls and only about half of adolescents with it can walk independently but regardless of that, kids with cerbral palsy rate their quality of life pretty high. Either adolescents with cerebral palsy are doing pretty well or able-bodied adolescents in general invent problems when they have none.  read more

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