Kristie L. Bell

TL;DR: OPD was present across all levels of gross motor severity using direct assessments and highlights the need for proactive screening of all young children with CP, even those with mild impairments, to improve growth and nutritional outcomes and respiratory health.

TL;DR: The PNST provides a sensitive, valid, and simpler alternative to existing pediatric nutrition screening tools such as Screening tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Pediatrics (STAMP), Screening Tool Risk on Nutritional status and Growth (STRONGkids), and Paediatric Yorkhill Malnutrition Score (PYMS) to ensure the early detection of hospitalized children at nutrition risk.

TL;DR: This study aims to investigate the relationship between a range of factors - linear growth, body composition, oral motor and feeding dysfunction, dietary intake, and time spent sedentary - and health outcomes, health care utilisation, participation and quality of life in young children with cerebral palsy.

TL;DR: Children with CP expend more energy during walking and have a lower PAL and lower energy requirements than do typically developing children, which has important implications when estimating the energy requirements of children with CP.

TL;DR: There has been very little research emphasis on the natural history of ageing with CP and even less with respect to the determinants or prevention of muscle loss with CP.