The presence of pain in children with cerebral palsy can make motor skill activities even more challenging for them, a research letter published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open states. According to an article on Healio.com, many children with cerebral palsy experience the secondary condition of pain, which is problematic because children with this condition already face barriers to participation in motor skill activities.
What Researchers Found
Researchers said motor performance in activities of daily living among children
with cerebral palsy is significantly lower than that among their peers. Because of the potential effect of pain for children with cerebral palsy, researchers said they sought to examine the association between pain and activities requiring motor skill performance such as difficulty while dressing or bathing and participation in sports. They looked at a nationally representative sample of U.S. children with cerebral palsy.
They analyzed data from the 2017 to 2018 National Survey of Children’s Health, specifically responses from 151 patients aged 6 to 17 years with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy and 9,177 typically developing children. Study data showed that children with cerebral palsy were much more likely to experience difficulties bathing or dressing. Further, less than half of the children with cerebral palsy were likely to participate in a sports activity.
When it came to chronic pain, it was 4.5 times more prevalent in children with cerebral palsy. Researchers also noted that children with cerebral palsy and pain were three times more likely to have dressing or bathing difficulty compared with children with cerebral palsy without pain. Also, children with cerebral palsy and pain were 60% less likely to participate in sports.
Researchers determined although cerebral palsy is a complicated disorder and that challenges with motor skills are common among these children, pain is also a notable contributing factor, which makes these challenges worse. Researchers suggested that identifying and treating pain in children with cerebral palsy may improve their participation in motor skill activities.
Contacting an Experienced Lawyer
Cerebral palsy often occurs as a result of brain damage stemming from negligence (carelessness) during labor and delivery. It is the responsibility of medical professionals to monitor the condition of the fetus and the mother and make decisions that would reduce or eliminate risks during delivery. If your child has cerebral palsy, he or she may be able to receive compensation that helps pay for medical expenses, lost income, cost of therapy, future treatments, permanent injuries, disabilities, past and future pain and suffering, etc.
The experienced New York personal injury attorneys at the Law Offices of Kenneth A. Wilhelm can help you better understand your legal rights and options, and also fight hard to recover just compensation for you. One of our clients obtained a verdict for $43,940,000 and another of our clients got a verdict for $23,500,000, both in medical malpractice cases.
We have seen many cases where New York City Health and Hospital Corporation facilities deliver babies who are born with cerebral palsy or Brachial plexus palsy (Erb’s palsy) stemming from negligence (carelessness), and/or medical malpractice in the labor and delivery etc. of the children.
The following list identifies some of these hospitals (operated by New York City Health and Hospital Corporation):
• Jacobi Hospital aka Bronx Municipal 1400 Pelham Parkway South Bronx, New York 10461 718-918-5000
• Lincoln Hospital 234 East 149th Street Bronx, New York 10451 718-579-5000
• North Central Bronx Hospital 3424 Kossuth Avenue Bronx, New York 10467 718-519-5000
• Coney Island Hospital 2601 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, New York 11235 718-616-3000
• Kings County Hospital 451 Clarkson Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11203 718-245-3131
• Woodhull Hospital 760 Broadway Brooklyn, New York 11206 718-963-8000
• Bellevue Hospital 462 First Avenue New York, New York 10016 212-562-5555
• Harlem Hospital 506 Lenox Avenue New York, New York 10037 212-939-1000
• Metropolitan Hospital 1901 First Avenue New York, New York 10029 212-423-6262
• Elmhurst Hospital 79-01 Broadway Elmhurst, New York 11373 718-334-4000
• Queens Hospital Center 82-68 164th Street Jamaica, New York 11432 718-883-3000
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Source: https://www.healio.com/news/neurology/20210716/pain-in-cerebral-palsy-makes-motor-skill-activities-even-more-challenging-for-kids