Listen NowDr. Stephanie Acord discusses how early identification and new diagnostic methods and therapies for children with mild to severe cerbral palsyare helping to improve life-long outcomes.
Dr. Stephanie Acord
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Host:     Welcome to Doc Talk, today we're talking with pediatric neurologist Dr. Stephanie Acord. Dr. Acord sees and treats children with cerebral palsy and is a member of Cook Children’s Movement Disorders Program. She also works closely with the neurosurgery eileptology, physiatry, and stroke teams here at Cook Children’s to provide patients and their families with the most up to date information and treatment options. Welcome Dr. Acord.
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Dr. Acord:          Thank you. Glad to be here.
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Host:     So I'd like to start off with a little background about you how did you choose neurology and in particular movement disorders and cerebral palsy?
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Dr. Acord:          I don't think there is actually a patient that I can recall that steered me in the direction of neurology it's more of that type of field of medicine that neurology is a lot of times people think of it more as that kind of like putting together pieces of a puzzle, and I think that's why many people actually shy away from neurology. But to me that's the challenge that is intriguing, and very interesting to me.
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Dr. Acord:          My first exposure with movement disorders and cerebral palsy actually came here at Cook Children’s. I was in the middle of doing a child neurology rotation at the university of Kentucky and I became very interested in reached out actually to Cook Children’s and got a rotation set up here in between my second and third year of medical school.
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Dr. Acord:          During that rotation I spent a good portion of time with doctor Warren Marks and Fernando Acosta who really showed me the ropes as maybe disorders.
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Dr. Acord:          I think one of the unique things about Cook Children’s is that here we have several movement disorder specialist whereas many other places in the country that actually don't have any let alone several
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Host:     Can you tell us a little about the Cerebral Palsy Program here at Cook Children’s?
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Dr. Acord:          Cerebral Palsy clinic here at Cook Children’s is a multidisciplinary team approach in which includes the neurologist, the physiatrist, the orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons the therapists that are inovolved as well as the orthotics and prosthetics team. The nice thing about having a multidisciplinary team clinic is that you can have several providers looking at a patient at one particular time and all come together in terms of what do they feel like is the best treatment option for the patient that given time.
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Dr. Acord:          And then depending on the treatment plan that's laid out is whether or not do you need to come to that clinic every time verses do they come to that clinic every so often but they don't necessarily need the resources in that clinic for every visit. 
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