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Orthopaedic Management of Cerebral Palsy

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Cerebral palsy is used as an inclusive term to describe a group of non-progressive disorders occurring in young children in which disease of the brain causes impairment of motor function. Impairment of motor function may be the result of paresis, involuntary movement, or incoordination, but motor dysfunctions which are transient, or are the result of progressive disease of the brain, or attributable to abnormalities of the spinal cord, are excluded. [1].

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK

    James E. Robb

  2. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    James E. Robb

  3. University of St. Andrews, Edinburgh, UK

    James E. Robb

  4. Department of Neuro-Orthopaedics, University Children’s Hospital Basel, Edinburgh, UK

    Reinald Brunner

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  2. Sick Children, Great Ormond Street Hospital for, Greater Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3JH, United Kingdom

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    Malcolm Macnicol

  4. Orthopädie, Olgahospital, Bismarckstr. 8, Stuttgart, 70176, Germany

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Robb, J.E., Brunner, R. (2010). Orthopaedic Management of Cerebral Palsy. In: Benson, M., Fixsen, J., Macnicol, M., Parsch, K. (eds) Children's Orthopaedics and Fractures. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-611-3_19

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