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Living with HSP – Management & Treatment News

2017 Survey of HSPers now available

Focus on jobs, walking, well-being and pain

Improving balance to prevent falls

Focus on front to back sway

Large gait study of HSP, CA and PD

Confirms HSP gait as highly variable

Botox plus serial casting more effective

Children with scissor gait can benefit

Life insurance and genetic testing

Discrimination happening in Australia

Adaptive sports for HSPers

Three young HSPers making a difference

HSP gait due to simultaneous muscle contractions

Linked to walking ability and energy expenditure

Wheelchair and Scooter technology advances

Features – at a price!

Balance can be improved in HSP

Falls can be prevented

“Becoming Disabled”

How we think about disability

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HSP Research Foundation

Welcome to the HSP Research Foundation - created in 2005 to find a cure for Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia - an inherited, degenerative disease affecting mainly the legs, causing muscle weakness, spasticity and severely impairing walking. Read more »

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