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St. Louis, MO 63110
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5th Annual Cerebral Palsy Conference
The CP Center diagnoses and treats infants, children and adolescents with cerebral palsy.
The CP center's approach is comprehensive, pro-active, and individualized. The physicians at St. Louis Children's Hospital know that treatment of children with CP should focus on the whole child, rather than only one aspect of the individual. Each week the staff holds a CP conference where they meet to discuss their patients. This allows them to share ideas and to develop specific strategies for each child's care. Working together, they are able to provide the tools the children need to live more active and less restricted lives.
The Center strives to achieve optimal management and treatment of each child with CP by integrating the Center's efforts with those of other experts, including pediatricians, rehabilitation specialists, neurologists, orthopedic surgeons and neurosurgeons, teachers and occupational, physical and speech therapists, among others.
Redefining the Future
Significant advancement in the treatment of cerebral palsy requires ongoing research to better understand the motor abnormalities of cerebral palsy, and to develop and test new strategies to improve patient outcomes. The staff of the Pediatric Neurology Cerebral Palsy Center recognizes that significant advancement in the treatment of cerebral palsy is not possible without the ongoing participation of each patient.
The staff of the Center feels privileged to be able to learn from their patients and patients' families who allow the staff to listen to, examine and observe the concerns of each individual patient and family member. Then, in collaboration with other members of the scientific community at BJC and Washington University School of Medicine, Cerebral Palsy Center staff members are able to design and carry out quantitative experiments that will further the understanding and treatment of cerebral palsy.