Cerebral Palsy Statistics

Cerebral palsy, also known as CP, is a disorder of movement and posture that is not progressive in nature

. It is caused by an injury or a defect or lesion in the developing brain of a fetus, newborn of infant. It is estimated that throughout the world population cerebral palsy patients exceed 15, 000,000 cases. Cerebral palsy affects an estimated 500,000 people in the United States. It is estimated to affect as many as 764,000 people in the United States. Of these more than 150,000 of the cases are children.

About one in every 278 children is affected by cerebral palsy. Between two and three out of every thousand children over the age of three have the disorder and each year about 8,000 infants are diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Every year nearly 1,500 preschoolers are diagnosed with cerebral palsy. In children ranging from birth to three years of age more than 10,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. An estimated 30 percent of children with cerebral palsy experience seizures. While seventy percent of cerebral palsy cases are a result of events that occur before birth that disrupt normal brain development, an estimated ten percent of children with cerebral palsy acquire the condition after birth due to brain injuries. Eighty percent of all cerebral palsy cases occur before the baby reaches one month of age.

There are different types of cerebral palsy. The most prevalent is spastic cerebral palsy. This affects 70 to 80 percent of cerebral palsy patients. Athetoid or dyskinetic cerebral palsy affects 10 to 20 percent of all cerebral palsy patients. The remaining, five to ten percent, of cerebral palsy patients are afflicted with ataxic cerebral palsy. Thirty percent of all cerebral palsy patients suffer spastic palsy in combination with one of the other three types. Approximately 25 percent of people with cerebral palsy suffer from mental retardation. About half of people with cerebral palsy use assistive devices. The different special equipment that may be used includes braces, walker, and wheelchairs which enables patients to be more mobile.

by: Phillip Stone

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