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It Gets Better :)

SemmieSweetheart
  • By SemmieSweetheart · New reply 9:05 am
  • Discussion in Independent living · 2 replies
  • So recently, I went through a little funk and found myself in a sort of melancholy state over the outcome of my first year of college. Then, after talking to several wonderful people here on Inspire I ...

Lesson 4 of ABM with something amazing.

saphire1981
  • By saphire1981 · Posted 8:20 am
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Well, we are in London having our second set of Anat Baniel Lessons with Movement And Wellbeing and this is his 4th lesson of the week. And I must say we are starting to see some very unexpected results ...

UPDATE, Stay Strong!!

FunSyze
  • By FunSyze · New reply 3:21 am
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • Hi everybody ;) I would like to share a post I shared with my new friend Nanc1234, in hope that it will help many who are suffering. Nanc1234, I pray you are having some relief from your pain today and ...

The Worst Feeling

SemmieSweetheart
  • By SemmieSweetheart · New reply yesterday at 4:33 pm
  • Discussion in Independent living · 14 replies
  • I am a 19 yr. old college student at all women's college living with CP. I find it extremely difficult to fit in here because my peers don't have the same health issues I do. To me these girls seem like ...

New to Inspire

HeatherIrene
  • By HeatherIrene · New reply yesterday at 3:58 pm
  • Discussion in Raising a child with cerebral palsy · 1 reply
  • Hi Everyone. I'm new to this site. I have a daughter, Brooke, who will be 5 at the end of July. She has spastic diplegia CP. She was diagnosed with CP at 18 months. We just found out last week that she ...

Good Health News

healthinmotion
  • By healthinmotion · Posted May 14, 2012
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Hey everyone, The May issue of Good Health News is out! Read about how dinner plans impact sleep, the importance of understanding your child's behaviour before treatment and a remedy which will help relieve ...

Frustrated

colleen0717
  • By colleen0717 · New reply May 14, 2012
  • Discussion in Treatment · 6 replies
  • Hi All, this is my very first post! Im not sure if someone can help me. I have a 20 yr old son. He had developomental delays since childbirth. Born on time but had a pneumothorax at birth which casued ...

i am so sick of this.

prov31gal
  • By prov31gal · New reply May 14, 2012
  • Discussion in Raising a child with cerebral palsy · 3 replies
  • we have yet again been dropped from another pediatricians office. it always happens this way....we tell them we do not vaccinate, they say they do encourage full vaccination, but they understand, and ...

cerebral palsy

traceyfitz10
  • By traceyfitz10 · New reply May 14, 2012
  • Discussion in Raising a child with cerebral palsy · 7 replies
  • My daughter is 6 years old and has spastic diplegia. In January 24th 2012 she underwent Selective dorsal rhiziotomy in Bristol UK which involves cutting the damaged nerves in the spine that send the wrong ...

When is the right time for PERCS/SPML procedure?

Signe
  • By Signe · New reply May 10, 2012
  • Discussion in Raising a child with cerebral palsy · 18 replies
  • Dear everyone. Our three year old daughter has CP diplegia. We have done intensive ABM for the past two years. As of now we are considering having the he PERCS/SPML procedure done for her as we hear of ...

Severe Pronation

jingerc
  • By jingerc · New reply May 10, 2012
  • Discussion in Treatment · 7 replies
  • Our 7 year old son has severe over-pronation of his right ankle. He can walk only with our assistance helping him balance and the assistance of his walker, and the pronation is most noticeable when he ...

Revisiting a Child's Lifestyle

healthinmotion
  • By healthinmotion · Posted May 7, 2012
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • A child’s lifestyle affects his alertness, behaviour and his ability to learn. Things such as what he eats, his daily activities and his time schedule are all areas which influence the development of ...

Fundraising for Spider therapy

saphire1981
  • By saphire1981 · New reply May 4, 2012
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • Hello everyone, I have decided to try and do some fundraising to raise money to help pay for Jakes spider therapy. This therapy is only available in London and costs £1500 and is a three week intensive ...

Physiotherapy Sessions here we come!

saphire1981
  • By saphire1981 · New reply May 4, 2012
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • Well, Jake has already been for three 60 minute sessions of Anat Baniel Therapy back in May of 2011. I'm not sure if there was any improvement in his mobility but I think it's still worth giving a go ...

Time flies...

Rowan22
  • By Rowan22 · New reply May 3, 2012
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • Has it really been six months since I last posted about Aiden? That i just insane. But so much has happened and we have been just busy living. Let's see... around Thsnksgiving Aiden got really sickly ...

Abm

Chudo
  • By Chudo · New reply May 2, 2012
  • Discussion in Treatment · 3 replies
  • Dear Sign, We live in netherlands. Our daughter is 4 years old. She has a cp. I just got to know about abm and wanted to ask, if you still invite Sndrea to you. If yes, we would like to join your group ...

Artane for kids with CP?

angelam
  • By angelam · New reply April 30, 2012
  • Discussion in Treatment · 3 replies
  • Hello All, We are one of our doctors recommended trying Artane for my 3 year old son who can be super tight. We do Vallium at night sometimes which helps him then but during the day he has very stiff ...

Hip Displasia

womanofgod
  • By womanofgod · New reply April 30, 2012
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • My daughter had hip surgery and happily she has her own bones still and not plastic parts. although the doctor said she will need another surgery at an older age because i belive they did have to use ...

Insurance and SPML Surgery

mominpa
  • By mominpa · New reply April 28, 2012
  • Discussion in Treatment · 3 replies
  • Hello, everyone. I am going out of my mind on tryin to figure out what to put in my letter to the insurance company to get my daughters SPML Surgery with Dr Nuzzo covered. To all that has had this what ...

New technology offers breakthrough in cerebral palsy treatment

mac2012
  • By mac2012 · New reply April 28, 2012
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • http://www.globalnews.ca/cerebral+palsy+ treatment/6442623587/story.html TORONTO – American scientists say a new nanotechnology-based technique that can target hard-to-reach parts of the brain could be ...

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