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Establish registry of cerebral palsy in Minia governorate /

Asmaa Salah Ali Ahmed

Establish registry of cerebral palsy in Minia governorate / تسجيل مرضى الشلل الدماغى في محافظة المنيا مصر Asmaa Salah Ali Ahmed ; Supervised Gehan Hassan Elmeniawy , Mona Nabil Mohamed , Amany Mousa Mohamed - Cairo : Asmaa Salah Ali Ahmed , 2018 - 78 P. : charts ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Growth and Development Disorders in Pediatrics

Aim: The current study was conducted to establish registry for physical therapy database of cerebral palsy (CP) patients in Mina governorate. Background: Children with CP were recruited from hospitals of health ministry (General hospitals), insurance hospitals, physical therapy centers, private hospitals and units of family medicine in Minia Governorate. Children were of both genders and their ages ranged from birth to eighteen years old. Materials: The outcome measures were Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS), Gross motor function measure (GMFM) from birth to eighteen years, Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) and Viking Speech Scale(VSS). Results: The results revealed that the children with CP who received physical therapy services represented 87.4% and children who did not receive physical therapy services represented 12.6%.There were 49% positive consanguinity, 63.2% were living in rural areas and 76.3% presented by obstruction. Classification of CP based on GMFCS:4.7% for level I, 31.6% for level II ,37.2% for level III, 25.7% for level IV and 8% for level V. Viking Speech scale declared 32.8% for level I, 33.6% for level II, 19.8 % for level III and 13.8 % for level IV. The current study revealed that there were significant relation between GMFM, MACS, GMFCS, VSS and CP



Cerebral Palsy Minia governorate Registry