Essays on Cerebral Palsy
Introduction and Definitions Being a disabled individual does not dictate whether someone can be an athlete or not, having an impairment puts them into a different category to the able bodied athletes which is Para-athletes. Para-athletes have their own event called the Paralympics games which began in 1948 for WWII veterans whom had spinal cord...
Around five million people in the US have limited limb movement, making it challenging for them to use products, such as electric-wheelchairs. The user needs to continuously move the joystick for specifying the chair’s trajectory and its speed. Unfortunately, users suffering from Cerebral Palsy lack these fine motor skills to use a joystick.[1] Cerebral Palsy...
Cerebral palsy is defined as, a group of permanent disorders affecting the movement and posture, and a person’s ability to maintain balance; these disturbances can appear fetal development or the infant brain and is the, “most common physical disability of children” (Wong’s 2015). Most often this disorder includes disturbances of, “sensation, perception, communication, cognition,” and...