Determination of the Quality of Life and the Factors Influencing it in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Abstract

Cerebral palsy is a non-progressive neuromotor disorder of cerebral origin. It is defined as a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture , causing activity limitation , that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain.⁽¹⁾  It is characterized by abnormal muscle tone, reflexes or motor development and coordination.