Historical Background Of Cerebral Palsy

HISTORY OF CP W.J.LITTLE DISCUSSED INFANTILE SPASTIC PARALYSIS –SOON WAS CALLED LITTLES DISEASE. LITTLES OBSERVATIONS WERE SUPPORTED BY SIR WILLIAM JOHN OSLER IN 1889 PUBLICATION ‘THE CEREBRAL PALSIES OF CHILDREN’

HISTORY OF CERBRAL PALSY PIONEERING WORK IN CP DONE BY DR WILLIAM JOHN LITTLE(ENGLAND 18101894) OCTOBER 2 1861 DESCRIBED TO THE OBSTRETICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON A PAPER ‘ON THE INFLUENCE OF ABNORMAL PARTURITION,DIFFICULT LABOURS,PREMATURE BIRTH AND ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM ON THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL CONDITION OF THE CHILD,ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO DEFORMITIES.

HISTORY OF CP SIGMUND FREUD REITERATED LITTLE’S WORK.IN HIS 1897 TEXT’INFANTILE CEREBRAL PARALYSIS’HE EMPHASISED THE EXISTENCE OF ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS SUCH AS MENTAL RETARDATION,EPILEPSY AND VISUAL PROBLEMS.HE FIRST CLASSIFIED THE CONDITION INTO FIVE MAJOR CATEGORIES ACCORDING TO NEUROLOGICAL INVOLVEMENT.

HISTORY OF CP LITTLE ATTRIBUTED CP MAINLY TO PERINATAL EVENTS AND ABNORMAL BIRTH PROCESS.SIGMUND FREUD SUGGESTED THAT PROBLEMS IN FETAL DEVELOPMENT MAY CAUSE THE ABNORMAL BIRTH PROCESS.

HISTORY OF CP GEORGE.F.L STROMEYER (18041876) INTRODUCED SUBCUTANEOUS TENOTOMY OF THE TENDOACHILLES. STOFFEL (1913) FIRST LAID THE STRESS ON THE VALUE OF NEURECTOMY. IN USA ,AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR CEREBRAL PALSY WAS FORMED.

HISTORY OF CP AACP FORMED IN 1947,WHICH BROUGHT TOGETHER PROFFESSIONALS FROM VARIOUS SPECIALITIES AND DISCIPLINES. DR WINFIELD MORGAN PHELPSORTHOPEDIC SURGEON(CHILDRENS HOSPITAL,BOSTON,PROFFESOR OF ORTH.SURGERY YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL AND FOUNDER THE CHILDRENS REHABILITATION INSTITUTE,BALTIMORE WAS THE FOUNDER PRESIDENT.

HISTORY OF CP OTHER MEMBERS BRONSON CROTHERS(NEUROLOGIST) MEYER PERLSTEIN (PAEDIATRICIAN) GEORGE DEAVER(PHYSIATRIST) EARL CARLSON(INTENSIVIST)

HISTORY OF CP IN INDIA PIONEERING WORK IN CP WAS DONE AT CHILDRENS ORTHPEDIC HOSPITAL,MUMBAI BY THE VISION OF DR P.K.MULLAFEROZE.A PARTIAL TEAM APPROACH WAS STARTED IN IN LATE 1950’S AND A FULL FLEDGED CP UNIT STARTED WITH THE AID OF SOCIAL AND WELFARE DEPARTMENT,WASHINGTONIN 1963.

HISTORY OF CP IN 1997 THE AMERICAN CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION BECAME THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CEREBRAL PALSY AND DEVE;OPEMENTAL MEDICINE.LITTLE’S EARLY CONCERN OF CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY MERGED WITH THE BROADENENED FIELD OF THE DEVELOPEMENTALLY DISABLED.

HISTORY OF CP IN INDIA THROUGH A TEAM EFFORT OF MEDICAL AND PARAMEDICAL PROFFESSIONALS THE INDIAN ACADEMY OF CEREBRAL PALSY WAS FOUNDED,THE LATE DR P.K.MULLAFEROZE (CHILDRENS ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL)WAS MADE FOUNDER PRESIDENT.

HISTORY OF CP THE IACP ORGANISES ANNUAL CONFERENCES IN INDIA ADRESSING VARIOUS ASPECTS OF CP.IST IACP WAS IN HYDERABAD 2006.2ND AT BANGALORE 2997,3RD WILL BE AT NAGPUR. WEBSITE www.iacp.org.com