Maxim Kiselev Makes His Mark Through Dance
Twenty-nine year old Maxim Kiselev lives in in Moscow, Russia, with his beautiful fiancé, Natalia, and lives with spastic tetraplegia which mainly affects the left side of his body. Maxim is a wheelchair dancer, and does both ballroom style dancing and figure skating on ice. He initially took up dancing at 14 years’ old as […]
Makenna Presnell Advocating for Changes in Nursing
[av_textblock size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=” color=” id=” custom_class=” av_uid=’av-kf4rbutd’ admin_preview_bg=”] Makenna Presnell Advocating for Changes in Nursing Makenna Presnell is a nursing student from Spokane, Washington, USA and she wants the world to know that nurses with disabilities are the ultimate resource for patients. Like most people with CP, Makenna understands the patient experience, […]
The pop-up centre getting kids with CP moving!
Families are travelling as far as five-hours on a round trip to bring their kids with CP to Gympanzees’ all-inclusive pop-up leisure centre. You might wonder why anyone would travel that far to go to a gym. For these families and their often-isolated children, the wonderful results being seen by this first-of-its-kind program make it […]
Bring home the importance of sleep, nutrition and movement for CP families
Dr Olaf Verschuren has been working with the Centre of Excellence for Rehabilitation Medicine, the UMCUtrecht Brain Centre, Utrecht University and De Hoogstraat Rehabilitation in the Netherlands for over a year to tackle the challenge of poor sleep, nutrition and physical activity in children with CP. The doctor and his colleagues started by interviewing the […]
Iain MacLeod Proves Limits Don’t Exist!
[av_textblock size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=” color=” id=” custom_class=” av_uid=’av-kf4x5php’ admin_preview_bg=”] Iain MacLeod Proves Limits Don’t Exist! Author: Iain MacLeod My name is Iain and I live in the Northeast of Scotland. I was born in Stornoway at Lewis Hospital in 1963, and in 1966, when I was three and a half years old, I […]
Jerusha Mather Makes Her Mark on Medicine
Born in Sri Lanka in 1994, Jerusha was destined to achieve great things. She was diagnosed with atheoid cerebral palsy by doctors in Sri Lanka who said that it was unlikely she would ever walk or talk. With this information, her parents decided to immigrate to Australia where they could access a more advanced medical […]
Chloe Tear: Advice for health professionals
Chloe Tear has come across many health professionals in her life. Here’s her advice for those treating people with CP…
Mumbai talks prevention, early detection and intervention
World CP Day in Mumbai India focused on the prevention, early detection and early intervention of cerebral palsy. Organised by the team at Hi 5 CDC, the event was held the Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital. Jasmeet Arora, co-founder of Hi 5 CDC explains…
Kerri Morgan: Let’s fight tooth and nail for these children
To mark World Cerebral Palsy Day and how it connects people with cerebral palsy around the world, the London Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy’s speech and language therapist Kerri Morgan reports from her recent trip to Ghana in Africa.
Hannah Awadzi: Special Mothers Project
In Ghana, children with cerebral palsy are often hidden from view, with no education and limited health care. Our guest blogger, Hannah Awadzi, started the Special Mothers Project to change this…