Long Term Studies on Cerebral Palsy

In this section I attempted to include those research papers or studies which were more long term in their scope. Some of these studies have taken place over 10 years, others spanning just 2. With an aging population of people with cerebral palsy it's important that this condition be studied over long periods of time in order to better understand how the condition can change over time. While cerebral palsy by definition is not a progressive condition, often not getting any worse with age, how a person's body copes with the condition and it's accompanying disorders can vary greatly as they age.

• Early nasal continuous positive airway pressure in a cohort of the smallest infants in Denmark: neurodevelopmental outcome at five years of age.
• Motor outcome differences between two groups of children with spastic diplegia who received different intensities of early onset physiotherapy followed for 5 years.
• Movement and motor development in ELBW infants at 1 year is related to cognitive and motor abilities at 4 years.
• Changes over several years of gross motor function in 3-8 year old children with cerebral palsy.
• Prevention of dislocation of the hip in children with cerebral palsy. The first ten years of a population-based prevention programme.
• Antenatal risk factors associated with unfavorable neurologic status in newborns and at 2 years of age.
• Intrathecal baclofen therapy over 10 years.
• Low superior vena cava flow and neurodevelopment at 3 years in very preterm infants.
• Infant wellbeing at 2 years of age in the Growth Restriction Intervention Trial (GRIT): multicentred randomised controlled trial.
• Educational and social competencies at 8 years in children with threshold retinopathy of prematurity in the CRYO-ROP multicenter study.
• Outcome at 5 years of age of SGA and AGA infants born less than 28 weeks of gestation.
• Cerebral Palsy Education information.
• Improved neurosensory outcome at 8 years of age of extremely low birthweight children born in Victoria over 3 distinct eras.
• Neurologic and developmental disability at six years of age after extremely preterm birth.
• Developmental outcome of discordant premature twins at 3 years.
• Surgical treatment of spasticity by selective posterior rhizotomy: 30 years experience.
• Three-year follow up of term and near-term infants treated with inhaled nitric oxide.
• Maternal fever at birth and non-verbal intelligence at age 9 years in preterm infants.
• Two-year outcome of infants weighing 600 grams or less at birth and born 1994 through 1998.
• Functional strength training in cerebral palsy: a pilot study of a group circuit training class for children aged 4-8 years.