The Musculoskeletal System in Children with Cerebral Palsy

This book advocates a new approach to the clinical management of the musculoskeletal system in children with cerebral palsy based on the concept of intervention to a complex adaptive system with the aim of improving the lived experience of the child with cerebral palsy. * Provides a critical review of the current understanding and management of musculoskeletal deformity in children with CP, in the context of the available evidence base and models of clinical practice. * Transfers current understanding of muscle and bone physiology and impairment, from the realms of research into mainstream clinical thinking * Discusses an alternative clinical model of assessment and intervention, focusing on impairment of muscle growth and function * Considers the musculoskeletal system in a child with cerebral palsy as a linked system of interactive processes and subsystems, extending from individual molecules to the child and their environment. The concepts discussed regarding clinical knowledge,