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Abstract
Background: Patient registry is a file of documents containing uniform information about individual persons, collected in a systematic and comprehensive way, in order to serve a pre-determined scientific, clinical or policy purpose. Aim; this study was conducted to establish data base for cerebral palsy in Al montazah district Alexandria city. Subjects and methods: children with cerebral palsy who are receiving physical therapy services of both genders, ranged in age from 6 months to 15 years in central hospitals, Health insurance hospitals and all private physical therapy centers. The number of cases which included in this study was 180 cases. The outcomes measures were Viking speech scale, Manual ability classification system, gross motor function classification system and gross motor function measure. Results: One hundred and eighty cases were enrolled with a prevalence of 0.4 per 1000 live births. The participants in the study, 67.22% spastic type, 8.9% dyskinetic, 8.33% ataxic and 15% hypotonic . Percentage of cerebral palsy based on GMFCS were; Level } (6.1%), level }} (22.2%), level }}} (35%), level }V (30.5%), and level V (5.5 %). Gross motor function measure was used to determine the score of performance for each participant. According to Manual Ability Classification System high incidences of children with CP classified at level }}. It was found correlations between Viking scale and cognition impairment and type of CP with associated impairments as epilepsy, cognition and speech. Conclusion: The current study revealed that incidence of spastic type was the major while ataxic type was nearly the least prevalence. According to gross motor function classification system high incidences of children with CP were classified level }}}