Postnatal cerebral infection leading to hemiplegic cerebral palsy: functional limitations and disability of 13 children in Sweden.

Purpose: To describe the motor function and disability of children with postnatal cerebral infection leading to hemiplegia, and to determine the severity of their motor disability.

Method: The disablement process was used to describe these children. Participants included 13 children (7 girls and 6 boys, mean age 9.

Participation in age-related activities and influence of cultural factors--comments from youth and parents of children with postnatal post infectious hemiplegia in Stockholm, Sweden.

Purpose: To investigate whether children with postnatal post-infectious hemiplegic cerebral palsy, and their parents, felt that participation in activities typical for the child's age and gender was affected. To identify factors, intra- and extra-personal that influenced disability with emphasis on factors related to immigration.

Method: Interviews with six youths and 15 caregivers regarding the child's ability to participate in age-related activities, the consequences of disability in their home country compared to Sweden, and whether immigration influenced being a parent to a disabled child.

Postnatal cerebral infection leading to hemiplegic cerebral palsy: clinical description of 13 children in Stockholm, Sweden.

Purpose: The aim of this research was to estimate the prevalence of postnatal cerebral infection leading to hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) in Stockholm County and to describe the motor impairments, associated impairments and involvement of the non hemiplegic side.

Method: Children with hemiplegic CP subsequent to a cerebral infection in the perinatal period up to the age of seven years were identified. The assessments of child psychologists and speech therapists and EEG-studies, CT-scan or MRI of the brain were extracted from the children's files.

Five-year follow-up of functional sitting position in children with cerebral palsy.

Ten children with cerebral palsy (CP) were videotaped and photographed after the introduction to a functional sitting position (FSP--defined as a position in which children with CP could gain head-, trunk- and foot-control and the maximum degree of independent function when performing arm and hand movements during tasks) and again five years later. Head-, trunk- and foot-control, and arm- and hand-function were assessed from video-tapes by the Sitting Assessment Scale. The eight children who had been using the FSP throughout this period showed slight but significant improvement; the remaining two had deteriorated.