Scientific letter: Profile of children diagnosed with cerebral palsy at Universitas Hospital, Bloemfontein, 1991-2001

  • A Venter Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
  • N Schirm Faculty of Health Sciences, Rijks University, Groningen
  • G Joubert Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
  • JM Fock Faculty of Health Sciences, Rijks University, Groningen

Abstract

Cerebral palsy is a term used for a group of non-progressive but often changing motor deficits, which are a result of a lesion of the brain occurring at an early developmental stage.
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Vol 48, No 3 - April 2006
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Original Research
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