Journal articles and policy submissions
Our peer-reviewed journal articles are categorised under:
- Advancing Evidence-Based Practices and Supports
- Health and Wellbeing across the Lifespan
- Physical Activity and Rehabilitation
Advancing Evidence-Based Practices and Supports
- Report: Transition to adult services experienced by young people with cerebral palsy: A cross-sectional study. 2023.
- Report: Co-designing resources to support the transition from child to adult health services for young people with cerebral palsy: A design thinking approach. 2022.
- Report: Access, use and satisfaction with physiotherapy services among adults with cerebral palsy living in the United Kingdom and Ireland. 2022.
- Report: Use of health services and unmet needs among adults with cerebral palsy in Ireland. 2022.
- Report: Health service use among adults with cerebral palsy: a mixed-methods systematic review. 2021.
- Report: Patterns of Health Service Use Among Young People With Cerebral Palsy in England. 2021.
- Report: Transition from child to adult health services for young people with cerebral palsy in Ireland: a mixed-methods study protocol. 2020.
- Report: Health service use among adults with cerebral palsy: a mixed methods systematic review protocol. 2020.
- Report: Multilevel surgery for children with cerebral palsy: A Meta-analysis. 2019.
- Report: Interventions to Improve or Maintain Lower-Limb Function Among Ambulatory Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Current Practice in the UK. 2018.
- Report: Mapping health services for adults with cerebral palsy in Ireland: a pilot study. 2022.
Health and Wellbeing across the Lifespan
- Report: Prevalence and incidence of chronic conditions among adults with cerebral palsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 2023.
- Report: Unmet Health Needs among Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy in Ireland: A Cross-Sectional Study. 2022.
- Report: Risk of dementia in adults with cerebral palsy: a matched cohort study using general practice data.
- Report: Comparison of the CHU-9D and the EQ-5D-Y instruments in children and young people with cerebral palsy: a cross-sectional study. 2020.
- Report: Incidence of falls among adults with cerebral palsy: a cohort study using primary care data. 2020.
- Report: Is cerebral palsy a cause of death? 2020.
- Report: Noncommunicable disease among adults with cerebral palsy: A matched cohort study.
- Report: Incidence of osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases in adults with cerebral palsy: A population-based cohort study.
- Report: Mortality due to cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and cancer in adults with cerebral palsy. 2019.
- Report: Risk of Depression and Anxiety in Adults With Cerebral Palsy. 2018.
- Report: The risk, burden, and management of non-communicable diseases in cerebral palsy: a scoping review.
- Report: Waist circumference provides an indication of numerous cardiometabolic risk factors in adults with cerebral palsy.
Physical Activity and Rehabilitation
- Report: Acceptability of a progressive resistance training programme for ambulatory adolescents with spastic cerebral palsy in England: a qualitative study. 2023.
- Report: Editorial: Exploring physical activity and sedentary behaviour in physical disability. 2022.
- Report: Associations between gait kinematics, gross motor function and physical activity among young people with cerebral palsy: a cross sectional study.
- Report: Pedometers, the frustrating motivators: a qualitative investigation of users’ experiences of the Yamax SW-200 among people with multiple sclerosis. 2022.
- Report: Predictors of Treatment Response to Progressive Resistance Training for Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy. 2021.
- Report: Patterns and correlates of sedentary behaviour among people with multiple sclerosis: a cross-sectional study. 2021.
- Report: Correlates of Objectively Measured Physical Activity Among People With Multiple Sclerosis: A Cross-Sectional Study. 2021.
- Report: Safety, feasibility, acceptability and effects of a behaviour-change intervention to change physical activity behaviour among people with multiple sclerosis: Results from the iStep-MS randomised controlled trial. 2020.
- Report: The use and perception of support walkers for children with disabilities: a United Kingdom survey. 2020.
- Report: Progressive resistance training for adolescents with cerebral palsy: the STAR randomized controlled trial. 2020.
- Report: Validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire Short Form (IPAQ-SF) as a measure of physical activity (PA) in young people with cerebral palsy: A cross-sectional study. 2020.
- Report: Validity and Acceptability of Wearable Devices for Monitoring Step-Count and Activity Minutes Among People With Multiple Sclerosis. 2021.
- Report: 'I can do this': a qualitative exploration of acceptability and experiences of a physical activity behaviour change intervention in people with multiple sclerosis in the UK. 2020.
- Report: Predictors of Walking Efficiency in Children with Cerebral Palsy: Lower-Body Joint Angles, Moments, and Power. 2019.
- Report: Associations between activity and participation in adults with multiple sclerosis: a cross sectional study. 2019.
- Report: Changing physical activity behaviour for people with multiple sclerosis: Protocol of a randomised controlled feasibility trial (iStep-MS). 2017.
- Report: Exercise interventions for cerebral palsy. 2017.
- Report: Strength Training for Adolescents with cerebral palsy (STAR): study protocol of a randomised controlled trial to determine the feasibility, acceptability and efficacy of resistance training for adolescents with cerebral palsy. 2016.
- Report: Comparison of patterns of physical activity and sedentary behavior between children with cerebral palsy and children with typical development. 2015.
- Report: Exercise interventions for adults and children with cerebral palsy. 2015.
- Report: Associations of sedentary behaviour, physical activity, blood pressure and anthropometric measures with cardiorespiratory fitness in Children with cerebral palsy. 2015.
- Report: Ability of RT3 accelerometer cut points to detect physical activity intensity in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy. 2014.
- Report: A comparison of three accelerometry-based devices for estimating energy expenditure in adults and children with cerebral palsy. 2014.
- Report: Reduced moderate-to-vigorous and increased sedentary behavior are associated with elevated blood pressure values in children with cerebral palsy. 2014.
- Report: Habitual physical activity and cardiometabolic risk factors in adults with cerebral palsy. 2014.
- Report: Measurement of energy expenditure by activity monitors: a review of the literature. 2013.
- Report: An evaluation of energy expenditure estimation by three activity monitors. 2013.
- Report: Youth experience matters: participation in physical activity by young people with physical disability. A protocol for a national participation snapshot and Delphi consensus study.
- Report: Why do children with unilateral cerebral palsy struggle with the single leg stance test? A kinematic and centre of pressure analysis
- Report: Do children with cerebral palsy change their gait when walking over uneven ground?
- Report: Obstacle Crossing During Gait in Children With Cerebral Palsy: Cross-Sectional Study With Kinematic Analysis of Dynamic Balance and Trunk Control.
- Report: Pilates-based exercises for gait and balance in ambulant children with cerebral palsy: feasibility and clinical outcomes of a randomised controlled trial.
- Report: Determining the most effective exercise for gluteal muscle activation in children with cerebral palsy using surface electromyography.
Policy submissions and guidelines
We submitted written evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on cerebral palsy in the UK. Our research is included in the group’s recommendations published in their reports:
Growing up: the transition from childhood to adulthood
Our research was included in the report “Physical activity for general health benefits in disabled adults: Summary of a rapid evidence review for the UK Chief Medical Officers’ update of the physical activity guidelines“, which resulted in the 2019 UK Chief Medical Officers’ Physical Activity Guidelines for Disabled Adults.