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secondary muscle‐skeletal malformations. The negative findings are disability reflecting
deficiency or the absence of development of sensory‐motor control mechanisms, decrease in
movement coordination, and weak balance and walking ability [3–5].

Table 1. ICF‐CY three for cerebral palsy.

The World Health Organization's (WHO's) International Classification of Functioning, Disability,
and Health (ICF), including its Children and Youth version (CY), established specifically to
determine health state of children and youngsters and consisting of 1685 categories, is a
considerably wide‐scale coding system [6]. ICF‐CY is a biopsychosocial model that emphasizes
human functioning (body functions and structures, activities, and participation) as a result of
the interaction between health conditions (diseases or diagnoses) and contextual factors

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