RT Book, Section A1 DiCarlo, Shannon A1 Schwabe, Aloysia A2 Kline, Mark W. SR Print(0) ID 1182922794 T1 Cerebral Palsy and Static Encephalopathies T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e YR 2018 FD 2018 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259588594 LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182922794 RD 2024/03/28 AB Cerebral palsy is a diagnosis that has had a constantly evolving definition since it was first mentioned in the medical literature as “cerebral paralysis” by Dr. William Little in 1843. Currently, the most widely accepted definition, from a 2004 international workshop in Bethesda, Maryland, is that cerebral palsy “describes a group of permanent disorders of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy are often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, perception, cognition, communication, behavior, by epilepsy and by secondary musculoskeletal problems.”