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CP is not a disease and it is unusual for two cases to occur in the same family. Broadly speaking a child with cerebral palsy is born once in every 400 live births. A cause of CP that is becoming more and more common is damage to the brain caused by accidental injury. This may occur should a child sustain a head injury in a fall, a road accident or at play.
Inherited defects do not play a large part in CP; the problem is mainly one of brain damage or lack of development of an area of the brain.