Establish registry of cerebral palsy in suez governorate / Hadeer Mohamed Mohamed ; Supervised Elham Elsayed Salem , Amany Mousa Mohamed , Mona Nabil Ayad

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 data base of cerebral palsy (CP) patients in Suez governorate. Subjects: 140 children with CP were selected from general hospital of health's ministry, insurance hospital, five physical therapy centers and two units of family medicine in Suez governorate. Children were selected from both genders and their ages ranged from two months to eighteen years old. Materials: the outcome measures were Gross motor function classification system ( GMFCS), Gross motor function measure (GMFM) in addition to manual ability classification System (MACS) and Viking speech scale. Results: The results of the current study revealed that children with CP who received physical therapy services were 89.3% and children who did not receive physical therapy services were 10.7%. Results of classification of CP children based on GMFCS were 8.6 % for level I, 9.3% for level II, 16.4 % for level III, 12.9% for level IV, and 52.9 % for level V .On the other hand results of Viking speech scale showed, 10% for level I , 10% for level II ,17.1% for level III and 15.7% for level IV. Conclusion: The prevalence of CP in Suez governorate is 5 for each 10000 live births. Incidence of spastic type of CP is the major (85%), while ataxic type showed the least prevalence (2.1%). Demography revealed that 62.9% were boys and 37.1% were girls. High incidences of children with CP were level V in GMFCS, and level III in MACS and Viking speech scale

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