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Cochrane Library search for "cerebral palsy"]

This video is on many immature sites - it shows a Russian man that can't properly speak or balance himself. The common text posted next to the video is "oh, drunk russian, ha-ha" and it's accapted by viewers. But the defiant proof that it's cerebral palsy is that a news agency found and did an interview with him and his family on his "fame" on the internet. They didn't know aqbout it and were not amused that thousands of people are making fun of cerebral palsy.

I mention this, because this is the most ‘popular’ pop culture reference of cerebral palsy online. Just youtube 'drunk russian'.

-G — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.112.186 (talk • contribs) 20:33, 19 November 2008

Cochrane Library search for "cerebral palsy" (not certain why Cochrane is at top of talk page?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:59, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ozzie10aaaa:, I put it there as a stop-gap to help my research until Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine/Archive_92#Cochrane_Library_talk_page_templates.3F is implemented, because Cochrane reviews are highly regarded MEDRSes. --122.108.141.214 (talk) 10:48, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Arabic edition of this page is pleasingly well-developed, and might have a few ideas for topics to research. The Polish edition seems to be a translation of the English. --122.108.141.214 (talk) 22:55, 25 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Stanton, Marion (2012). Understanding cerebral palsy : a guide for parents and professionals. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN 9781849050609.

Looks like it might be a good general resource for improving the largely-uncited signs and symptoms section. I'm a bit confused by the recent promotion of the article to B-class - although I have been working to improve the article, my experience as a reader, and the amount of citations needed still gels more with the c-class description, I think. --122.108.141.214 (talk) 22:04, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs more on 'cerebral palsy and' each of the stages of human development. Dropping this here for safekeeping. --122.108.141.214 (talk) 02:35, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

These "diagrams" are so awful and played out. Come on, it's been almost ten years and it's still copy-pasted onto every page about a disease. And in this case, CP is only 2% genetic! What does it help to have an ugly, drab, blue and white figure that is just more confusing than it is helpful? Hwfr (talk) 21:18, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I feel that there is some disorganization in the lead section of this article. Some of the paragraphs I believe could be rearranged in a way that would make more sense to the readers. There are also sections that are quite lengthy. I plan to look through the lead section of this article, rearrange the order of the paragraphs in a way that may make more sense. I also plan to go through and perhaps re-summarize lengthy sections in order to shorten them, as well as re-paraphrase sentences to bring more accuracy and strength to this article. Torressy (talk) 17:32, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

With respect to cause the ref says "In many cases, the cause of cerebral palsy is unknown. Possible causes include genetic abnormalities, congenital brain malformations, maternal infections or fevers, or fetal injury, for example."[1]

The brain damage is part of the mechanism. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 08:28, 25 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The infobox image doesn't seem to relate to the condition at all -- it's just a doctor examining a smiling kid. I looked at some other languagewiki versions of this article, but couldn't find a better one. — Goszei (talk) 00:10, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]