الفهرس 
Title : Establish registry of cerebral palsy in Mit-Ghamer City-Egypt
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Abstract
The cerebral palsy register is research information developed to facilitate the study of the distribution, prevalence and severity of cerebral palsy, the etiology and determinants of cerebral palsy. Purpose: To establish data base about cerebral palsy in Mit-Ghamer city. Subject and methods: one hundred thirty two cerebral palsy children receiving physical therapy of both genders participated in the study and age ranged from6 month to15 years. All cerebral palsy children are from Mit-Ghamer and its villages. Cerebral palsy children collected from hospitals and private centers. Gross motor function classification System Expanded and Revised (GMFCS-ER); gross motor function measure (GMFM), manual ability classification system (MACS) and viking speech scale (VSS) were used in assessment of cases. Results: Spastic children represented 79.5%, hypotonic children represented 12.1%, dyskintic children represented 4.5% and ataxic children represented 3.8% of total cerebral palsy cases. Results from GMFCS, GMFM, MACS and VSS were recorded. Conclusion: Spastic type has the highest frequency among cases and spastic quadriplegia is the most common type. According to GMFCS; Level 5 have the highest percentage, this means that the severity of the cases were high. The CP register aim to measure effectiveness of prevention methods and to assist set up and evaluate health services