Another difference between cerebral palsy and most people with
brain damage is that the brain damage in cerebral palsy happens
before birth, during birth, or shortly after birth.  Shortly after birth
can extend to from 3 to 5 years, but no more.  Often in cerebral palsy,
the primitive reflexes last longer than in ordinary children.
Mariana Ruybalid

At 07:31 PM 4/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 4/29/00 9:04:46 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
><< Hi again,
>
>I had also joined a 'yahoo' club for spina bifida and asked the same question
>there, about being related to cp........  the answer I got from two people
say
>yes, particularly in myelomeningocele cases (I was one)...... here's what one
>person said:
>---------------------------
>   Cerebral Palsey and spina bifida are in fact related. I was told
>   when my son was very young that he does have cerebral palsey
>   due to the fact that he has brain involvement with his spina
>   bifida ie arnold chiari malformation and hydracephalus and
>   shunt.  >>
>
>Beth,
>
>    We may be "splitting semantic hairs", but cerebral palsy is in no way
>related to spina bifida. CP is a group of paralyses involving injury to the
>motor cortex of the brain and has nothing to do with the spinal cord. Are the
>"effects" of sb and cp alike? maybe. In the classic sense, the motor cortex
>is a long way from the spinal cord.
>Ask any neurologist.
>
>
>Bobby
>