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Community services for young adults with motor disabilities – A paradox.

Posted on December 19th 2009

Conclusions. Services need to be more individualized and flexible to accommodate the environmental and personal needs of the young adults. Rehabilitation professionals have important roles at both an individual family level and the systems level to ensure the ‘best fit’ between persons with motor disabilities and the services available to them. Contemporary views of disability support rehabilitation intervention targeting both individual and environmental factors.
PMID: 20001828 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Disability and Rehabilitation)



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Parents’ perspectives on occupational therapy and physical therapy goals for children with cerebral palsy.

Posted on December 19th 2009

Conclusions. The variability noted both in parents’ desired role in goal setting and in goals important to parents highlights the importance of establishing trusting relationships with families so that family goals, values, individual circumstances, and desired level of participation in goal setting can be openly discussed.
PMID: 20001831 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Disability and Rehabilitation)



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Potential of neonatal blood spot data to clarify the etiology of cerebral palsy

Posted on December 17th 2009

Future Neurology , January 2010, Vol. 5, No. 1, Pages 1-3. (Source: Future Neurology)

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Potential of neonatal blood spot data to clarify the etiology of cerebral palsy

Posted on December 17th 2009

Future Neurology , January 2010, Vol. 5, No. 1, Pages 1-3. (Source: Future Neurology)



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Use of erythromycin in pregnancy

Posted on December 16th 2009

Source: National Teratology Information Service (NTIS)
Area: Evidence > Drugs in Pregnancy
SUMMARY: Erythromycin is a broad spectrum macrolide antibiotic. The available data does not indicate that use of erythromycin is associated with an increased risk of congenital malformations or any other adverse fetal effects. A recent study has suggested a possible increased risk of cardiovascular malformations and pyloric stenosis, however causality has not been established and the individual risk, if any, is thought to be low.
A randomised trial reported that the administration of erythromycin in women with spontaneous premature labour with intact membranes was associated with an increased risk of functional impairment and cerebral palsy in exposed children. However, there is no evidence to sug…



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