Cerebral palsy Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Leisure=== Leisure activities can have several positive effects on physical health, mental health, life satisfaction, and psychological growth for people with physical disabilities like CP.<ref name="smith_2009" /> Common benefits identified are stress reduction, development of coping skills, companionship, enjoyment, relaxation and a positive effect on life satisfaction.<ref name="ReferenceC" /> In addition, for children with CP, leisure appears to enhance adjustment to living with a disability.<ref name="ReferenceC" /> Leisure can be divided into structured (formal) and unstructured (informal) activities.<ref name="cassidy_1996" /> Children and teens with CP engage in less habitual [[physical activity]] than their peers.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Carlon SL, Taylor NF, Dodd KJ, Shields N | title = Differences in habitual physical activity levels of young people with cerebral palsy and their typically developing peers: a systematic review | journal = Disability and Rehabilitation | volume = 35 | issue = 8 | pages = 647β655 | date = April 2013 | pmid = 23072296 | doi = 10.3109/09638288.2012.715721 | s2cid = 14115837 }}</ref> Children with CP primarily engage in physical activity through therapies aimed at managing their CP, or through [[organized sport]] for people with disabilities.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Verschuren O, Peterson MD, Balemans AC, Hurvitz EA | title = Exercise and physical activity recommendations for people with cerebral palsy | journal = Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology | volume = 58 | issue = 8 | pages = 798β808 | date = August 2016 | pmid = 26853808 | pmc = 4942358 | doi = 10.1111/dmcn.13053 }}</ref> It is difficult to sustain behavioural change in terms of increasing physical activity of children with CP.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Bloemen M, Van Wely L, Mollema J, Dallmeijer A, de Groot J | title = Evidence for increasing physical activity in children with physical disabilities: a systematic review | journal = Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology | volume = 59 | issue = 10 | pages = 1004β1010 | date = October 2017 | pmid = 28374442 | doi = 10.1111/dmcn.13422 | doi-access = free }} {{open access}}</ref> Gender, manual dexterity, the child's preferences, cognitive impairment and epilepsy were found to affect children's leisure activities, with manual dexterity associated with more leisure activity.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Bult MK, Verschuren O, Jongmans MJ, Lindeman E, Ketelaar M | title = What influences participation in leisure activities of children and youth with physical disabilities? A systematic review | journal = Research in Developmental Disabilities | volume = 32 | issue = 5 | pages = 1521β1529 | date = September 2011 | pmid = 21388783 | doi = 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.01.045 }}</ref> Although leisure is important for children with CP, they may have difficulties carrying out leisure activities due to social and physical barriers.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} Children with cerebral palsy may face challenges when it comes to participating in sports. This comes with being discouraged from physical activity because of these perceived limitations imposed by their medical condition.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Coleman N, Nemeth BA, LeBlanc CM | title = Increasing Wellness Through Physical Activity in Children With Chronic Disease and Disability | journal = Current Sports Medicine Reports | volume = 17 | issue = 12 | pages = 425β432 | date = December 2018 | pmid = 30531459 | doi = 10.1249/JSR.0000000000000548 | s2cid = 54473147 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page