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"KidsHaveStrokes.org- provides specific information on stroke in utero, perinatal stroke, prenatal stroke, infant stroke, and stroke in childhood

PEDIATRICS - Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatris - Vol. 113, No. 2, 2004. Study assessing Constraint-Induced Movement therapy. Constraint-Induced Movement (CI) therapy has been found to be a promising treatment for substantially increasing the use of extremities affected by such neurologic injuries as stroke and traumatic brain injury in adults. The purpose of this study was to determine the applicability of this intervention to young children with cerebral palsy. Study concluded that Pediatric Constraint Induced Therapy produced major and sustained improvement in motoric function in the young children with hemiparesis in the study.

Children's Hemiplegia & stroke Association - The first non-profit organization in North America to offer information and support to families of infants, children, and young adults who have Hemiplegia or Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy.

The Brain Attack Coalition is a group of professional, voluntary and governmental entities dedicated to reducing the occurrence, disabilities and death associated with stroke. The goal of the Coalition is to strengthen and promote the relationships among its member organizations in order to help stroke patients or those who are at risk for a stroke.

PubMed Central Abstract of study examining the Association of Cerebral Palsy with Other Disability in Children with Perinatal Arterial Ischemic Stroke

PSN is dedicated to helping parents and families cope and move forward in their lives. PSN is also the first support group for infant, pediatric and childhood stroke registered with the American Heart Association

Study will determine the effectiveness, mechanism, and safety of 5 treatments of 6-Hz primed low-frequency rTMS applied to the non-stroke hemisphere and combined with constraint induced therapy (CIT) to promote recovery of the paretic hand.