| Cerebral palsy, a non-progressing motor impairment that begins in early childhood, has widely been viewed as the result of oxygen deprivation during birth or other birth-related factors such as prematurity. While this is true for many children, new research from Boston Children’s Hospital finds that as many as 1 in 4 have an underlying genetic condition with potential to change the overall approach to their care. The study appears in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. “In cerebral palsy, the first thing that comes to many physicians’ minds is birth injury or asphyxia,” says senior investigator Siddharth Srivastava, MD, a neurologist in Boston Children’s Cerebral Palsy and Spasticity Program who specializes in neurogenetic disorders. “That idea has become pervasive, in both neurology and orthopedics training and in the general public.” |
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