Living With Cerebral Palsy
Embracing Life Challenges While Living with Cerebral Palsy Cerebral Palsy is a locomotive disorder affecting different aspects of life. Although, it does not affect life…
Cerebral Palsy
A Positive Attitude To Disability
A positive attitude to disability BBC Scotland reporter Ian Hamilton has been travelling around Europe to investigate job opportunities for disabled people. MADRID Denmark and…
Mothers And Offspring Can Share Cells
Mothers And Offspring Can Share Cells Throughout Life Cutting the umbilical cord doesn’t necessarily sever the physical link between mother and child. Many cells pass…
Getting Disabled Access Recognised
Disabled access in the Forefront – Platform Lifts Since 1995, and the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), architects and structural engineers have made…
Getting Deserved Help From Care Givers
Government Launches Guidance To Assist In Support For Self Care, UK Health Minister Ivan Lewis announced the introduction of seven Common Core Principles to Support…
What Is AutoImmunity
Autoimmunity Autoimmunity is the failure of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts (down to the sub-molecular levels) as self, which results in an…
Reflux Disability Explained
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD; or GORD when spelling oesophageal, the BE form) is defined as chronic symptoms or mucosal damage produced by…
What is Marfan Scoliosis
Marfan Syndrome The Marfan syndrome is a medical condition and is classified as a heritable disorder of connective tissue. Connective tissue (including the extra-cellular matrix)…
How Do We Look At Seizures and Epilepsy
Epilepsy Seizures Epilepsy Seizures are temporary abnormal electro-physiologic phenomena of the brain, resulting in abnormal synchronization of electrical neuronal activity. They can manifest as an…
Special Education for Cerebral Palsy
Conductive Education Conductive Education Conductive education, or CE, is an educational system that has been specifically developed for children and adults who have motor disorders…
What is a Congenital Physical Anomaly
Congenital Disorder A congenital physical anomaly is an abnormality of the structure of a body part. An anomaly may or may not be perceived as…