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Title : Physical therapy registry for establishment of cerebral palsy children in Elgharbya
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Abstract
Back ground :Patient registry is an organized documented system to collect uniformed data for cerebral palsy population. Aim; this study was conducted to establish data base for cerebral palsy (CP) in ElMahalla city and its surrounding cities Samanoud,Qutor, Zyfta,El-Gharbia governorate. Subjects and Methods: children with cerebral palsy who are receiving physical therapy services of both genders, ranged in age from 3 months to 18 years in Ministry of Health, Insurance hospitals, units of family medicine in villages and cities and all private centers of physical therapy in El-Mahalla city and its surrounding cities at EL-Gharbia governorate were involved in this study there number were 965 case. The outcome measures were Gross Motor Measurement Scale, Gross Motor Function Classification System from 3month to 18 years, Manual Ability Classification System and Viking Speech Scale. Results: Within the study participants, 72.5% are spastic type, 16% are dyskinetic, 7% are ataxic and 4.5% are hypotonic. Percentage of CP based on GMFCS were; 9.5% for level I, 25% for level II, 31.5% for level III, 18.5% for level IV, and 15.5% for level V. (GMMS) was used to determine score performance for each participant. According to MACS and Viking speech scale high incidences of children with CP were classified at level III. Conclusion: The current study revealed that CP children who are receiving physical therapy; incidence of spastic type is the major while hypotonic is the least prevalence. High incidences of children with CP were classified level III in GMFCS, MACS and Viking speech scale. The results revealed that more than 2/3 of children with CP are actively ambulant, functional and able to communicate