Abbreviation NICU Neonatal intensive care unit Cerebral palsy (CP) is a condition that essentially, but not exclusively, involves the motor system - originally thought to result from a static brain lesion resulting in a dynamic motor impairment that evolved and often deteriorated with advancing growth and development. CP can be classified into two broad groups based on timing of the injury responsible for causing CP: individuals whose brain injury occurred in the prenatal/perinatal period and those that acquire a brain injury postnatally. Tackling the "unpreventable" Congenital anomalies are found in nearly 25% of people with CP and this group have largely been excluded from research.45 In addition, children with CP and congenital anomalies are likely to have a more severe phenotype. There is a large collaboration underway between the Australian Cerebral Palsy Register, the Surveillance of Cerebral Palsy Europe, and EUROCAT analysing data on over 8000 children with CP. [Extracted from the article]