World's first mobile App for Cerebral Palsy launched in Lanka

by Carol Aloysius

The Cerebral Palsy Lanka Foundation (CPLF) the country's first and only organisation for children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) has launched a mobile App on CP to help parents and caregivers to organisations worldwide which are working in this same field. "It is a very simple App and could be downloaded free from the Google store", founder and CPLF Director Dr. Gopi Kitnasamy told the Sunday Observer. The mobile App is the World's first on CP, he said.

He said that Sri Lanka had an estimated 40,000 people with Cerebral Palsy and 17 million patients worldwide. CP refers to a group of neurological disorders that appear in infancy or early childhood and permanently affects body movement and muscle coordination. Cerebral Palsy (CP) is caused by damage to or abnormalities in the developing brain that disrupt the brain's ability to control movement and maintain posture and balance. "This condition has no cure", he said.

The mobile App, launched on World Cerebral Palsy Day on October 2, 2013, was presented by CPLF at the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, Milwaukee, USA in the same month.

"It provides useful and important information about several frequently asked topics on Cerebral Palsy and connects people to organisations around the world, working for persons with CP. It also has links to other websites", he said. "The CPLF is working on the iphone version of this App which will be launched soon", he said.