Information on the benefits of infant massage, including how to give a light massage
An explanation of what Evidence Based Practice is and how professionals make decisions about treatments
A description of the most common types of brain scanning techniques, and what to expect.
The PenCRU ‘What’s the Evidence?’ reports are an ongoing series of short reports that seek to summarise what is known about the effectiveness of a particular treatment or therapy. These reports are a synthesis of existing research and are not new studies that we have carried out. They are written in response to queries from families about specific therapies and treatments.
This guide outlines some suggestions to help you search efficiently on the Internet, and to appraise whether the websites you find present reliable and unbiased information.
This review examines the effects of using cranial osteopathy with children with cerebral palsy.
This review determines whether using a kneeblock and sacral pad as part of
seating system influenced outcomes in children with bilateral cerebral palsy
who cannot walk. The outcomes of specific interest were hip migration taken
from radiographs, pain, hip range and sitting ability.
This guide recognises that when deciding on using a complementary or
alternative therapy parents are faced with a number of issues specially related
to complementary or alternative medicine.
This review summarises the findings of a pilot study to examine if speech and language therapy can increase the intelligibility of children with dysarthria and cerebral palsy.
A description of neurofeedback training; a therapy that aims to improve brain function for a number of disorders, inlcuding learning disabilities, ADHD and sleep disorders
This review looks at whether variations in certain genes might be contributing to the development of autistic spectrum disorders in a group of children whose mothers were taking anti-epileptic drugs during pregnancy.
This study focuses on exploring the experiences of children with cerebral
palsy (CP).