Hand Therapy in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Practical Approach for Parents, Therapists, and Other Healthcare Professionals Handling Children with

Hand Therapy in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Practical Approach for Parents, Therapists, and Other Healthcare Professionals Handling Children with
Author: Mpt Priya Reddappa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2019-10-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789353913465

The book, " Hand therapy in children with cerebral palsy", is a concise practical book for parents, practising paediatric therapists, and other healthcare professionals. The book is an informative resource on the practical aspects of improving hand function in children with the spastic type of cerebral palsy including, monoplegia, hemiplegia, diplegia, and spastic quadriplegia. The book deals in detail with the typical development, evaluation, and identification of abnormal patterns of hand function in children with spastic cerebral palsy. The concepts of therapeutic intervention and handling of the child have been well explained and presented with pictures wherever necessary. This book is concise and well organized making it easy to read. Glossary has been provided at the end of the book, defining the key terms.Priya Reddappa, MPT (Paediatric Neurology), APGDCR-PV, is a postgraduate Paediatric Physical Therapist, and a licensed Life Member of Indian Association of Physiotherapists (MIAP). She completed her Masters in Physical Therapy from The Tamilnadu Dr M.G.R Medical University and has experience as a Physical Therapist over 12 years in various clinical areas of Orthopaedics, Neurology, Cardiorespiratory, and Neuropaediatric conditions. As a clinically driven professional, she has worked in paediatric acute care (inpatient settings), outpatient settings, special school, and paediatric rehabilitation centres. She has handled paediatric patients at Apollo Children's Hospital, Chennai for over five years. She gained experience as a Research Clinical Evaluator for Apollo Hospitals Education and Research Foundation for a Clinical Trial on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy for about four years. She has published two research papers in International journals regarding hand function in children with cerebral palsy, and adults with spinal cord injury.

Teaching Motor Skills to Children with Cerebral Palsy and Similar Movement Disorders

Teaching Motor Skills to Children with Cerebral Palsy and Similar Movement Disorders
Author: Sieglinde Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This book provides parents with help for children with cerebral palsy or other developmental delay master gross motor skills beginning in infancy. Organised in the sequence children acquire gross motor skills, this guide explains how motor development unfolds, and how cerebral palsy can affect it.

Pediatric Hand Therapy

Pediatric Hand Therapy
Author: Joshua M. Abzug
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2019-11-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323530931

Get a quick, expert overview of optimal therapeutic interventions for pediatric patients with musculoskeletal conditions of the hand. This concise resource by Drs. Joshua Abzug, Scott Kozin, and Rebecca Neiduski offers practical recommendations and guidelines along with key background information, for a well-rounded, concise perspective on hand therapy for children. You'll benefit from the knowledge and experience of orthopaedic surgeons and other members of the rehabilitation care team who provide a real-world, multidisciplinary approach to this complex field. - Covers a range of musculoskeletal conditions, including: congenital disorders, joint disorders, neuromuscular disorders, sports-related injuries, and trauma. - Includes supporting background information, including an overview of embryology, intrauterine diagnosis, and physical functional development. - Covers complementary, practical, and clinical approaches, including orthotic intervention and prosthetics. - Editors and contributors represent orthopaedic surgeons and members of the rehabilitation care team for a well-rounded perspective.

Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Palsy
Author: Freeman Miller
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2006-05-08
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0801883547

When a child has a health problem, parents want answers. But when a child has cerebral palsy, the answers don't come quickly. A diagnosis of this complex group of chronic conditions affecting movement and coordination is difficult to make and is typically delayed until the child is eighteen months old. Although the condition may be mild or severe, even general predictions about long-term prognosis seldom come before the child's second birthday. Written by a team of experts associated with the Cerebral Palsy Program at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, this authoritative resource provides parents and families with vital information that can help them cope with uncertainty. Thoroughly updated and revised to incorporate the latest medical advances, the second edition is a comprehensive guide to cerebral palsy. The book is organized into three parts. In the first, the authors describe specific patterns of involvement (hemiplegia, diplegia, quadriplegia), explain the medical and psychosocial implications of these conditions, and tell parents how to be effective advocates for their child. In the second part, the authors provide a wealth of practical advice about caregiving from nutrition to mobility. Part three features an extensive alphabetically arranged encyclopedia that defines and describes medical terms and diagnoses, medical and surgical procedures, and orthopedic and other assistive devices. Also included are lists of resources and recommended reading.

Spastic Diplegia--Bilateral Cerebral Palsy

Spastic Diplegia--Bilateral Cerebral Palsy
Author: Lily Collison MA MSc
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2020-02-05
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781952181009

"A must-read for professionals, parents, and the individual with CP."-Deborah Gaebler-Spira, MDAn empowering and evidence-based guide for living a full life with spastic diplegia-bilateral cerebral palsy."This detailed and practical book on spastic diplegia, written by a parent in conjunction with medical practitioners at Gillette, is simply brilliant and fills a huge gap."-Lori Poliski, parentCerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of childhood-onset lifelong physical disability. Approximately one-third of those with CP have the subtype spastic diplegia-also known as bilateral spastic CP, or simply bilateral CP. An estimated 6 million worldwide have spastic diplegia. Until now, there has been no book focused on this condition to help this large group of people. This book focuses on the motor problems-problems with bones, muscles, and joints, and their impact on walking. The Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) is a five-level system that indicates the severity of the condition. This book is relevant to those at GMFCS levels I to III: those who are capable of walking independently or with a handheld mobility device. These three levels account for the majority of people with spastic diplegia.The book addresses how spastic diplegia develops over the lifespan and explains the evidence-based, best-practice treatments. It empowers parents of young children, and adolescents and adults with the condition, to become better advocates and co-decision makers in the medical process. The focus of this optimistic, yet practical book is on maximizing activity and participation-living life to its fullest. Health care professionals, educators, students, and extended family members will also benefit from reading this book. Indeed, while this book focuses on spastic diplegia, much of what is addressed also applies to other forms of spastic CP at GMFCS levels I to III, namely hemiplegia and quadriplegia.Written by Lily Collison, a parent of a son with spastic diplegia and a medical sciences graduate, in close collaboration with senior medical experts from Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare-a world-renowned center of excellence for CP treatment-this is an excellent, long-needed resource for spastic diplegia.

Occupational Therapy Practice Guidelines for Early Childhood

Occupational Therapy Practice Guidelines for Early Childhood
Author: Gloria Frolek Clark
Publisher: AOTA Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Occupational therapy for children
ISBN: 9781569003435

Currently in the United States, 20% of children ages 6 years or younger live in poverty. Poor children have fewer opportunities than their peers to resources that are important for child development. At the same time, the prevalence of developmental disabilities has increased to 1 in every 6 children. Early identification of developmental delays is critical, and more than half of all American parents do not know the warning signs. Occupational therapy professionals in early intervention and preschool practice can provide the necessary services to support children's health in early childhood. This Practice Guideline explains the occupational therapy process for young children--and their families, caregivers, and teachers--which includes evaluation, intervention, and outcomes planning to enhance a child's occupational performance, adaptation, health and wellness, community participation, role competence, and self-advocacy. Topics include social-emotional development; feeding, eating, and swallowing; cognitive and motor development; service delivery; autism; obesity, cerebral palsy; and parent training. This work can help occupational therapy practitioners, as well as those who manage, reimburse, or set policy regarding occupational therapy services, understand the contribution of occupational therapy in evaluating and serving young children. This guideline can also serve as a resource for parents, school administrators, educators, and other early childhood staff.

Parenting Matters

Parenting Matters
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2016-11-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309388570

Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Palsy
Author: Mintaze Kerem Gunel
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2016-09-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9535126482

Nowadays, cerebral palsy (CP) rehabilitation, along with medical and surgical interventions in children with CP, leads to better motor and postural control and can ensure ambulation and functional independence. In achieving these improvements, many modern practices may be used, such as comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment, clinical decision making, multilevel surgery, botulinum toxin applications, robotic ambulation applications, treadmill, and other walking aids to increase the quality and endurance of walking. Trainings are based on neurodevelopmental therapy, muscle training and strength applications, adaptive equipment and orthotics, communication, technological solves, and many others beyond the scope of this book. In the years of clinical and academic experiences, children with cerebral palsy have shown us that the world needs a book to give clinical knowledge to health professionals regarding these important issue. This book is an attempt to fulfill and to give ''current steps'' about CP. The book is intended for use by physicians, therapists, and allied health professionals who treat/rehabilitate children with CP. We focus on the recent concepts in the treatment of body and structure problems and describe the associated disability, providing suggestions for further reading. All authors presented the most frequently used and accepted treatment methods with scientifically proven efficacy and included references at the end of each chapter.

Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process

Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process
Author: Aota
Publisher: AOTA Press
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2014
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781569003619

As occupational therapy celebrates its centennial in 2017, attention returns to the profession's founding belief in the value of therapeutic occupations as a way to remediate illness and maintain health. The founders emphasized the importance of establishing a therapeutic relationship with each client and designing an intervention plan based on the knowledge about a client's context and environment, values, goals, and needs. Using today's lexicon, the profession's founders proposed a vision for the profession that was occupation based, client centered, and evidence based--the vision articulated in the third edition of the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process. The Framework is a must-have official document from the American Occupational Therapy Association. Intended for occupational therapy practitioners and students, other health care professionals, educators, researchers, payers, and consumers, the Framework summarizes the interrelated constructs that describe occupational therapy practice. In addition to the creation of a new preface to set the tone for the work, this new edition includes the following highlights: a redefinition of the overarching statement describing occupational therapy's domain; a new definition of clients that includes persons, groups, and populations; further delineation of the profession's relationship to organizations; inclusion of activity demands as part of the process; and even more up-to-date analysis and guidance for today's occupational therapy practitioners. Achieving health, well-being, and participation in life through engagement in occupation is the overarching statement that describes the domain and process of occupational therapy in the fullest sense. The Framework can provide the structure and guidance that practitioners can use to meet this important goal.

Constraint-induced Movement Therapy

Constraint-induced Movement Therapy
Author: G. Uswatte
Publisher: Ios PressInc
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2006
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781586036591

Constraint-Induced Movement therapy (CI therapy) is a behavioral approach to neurorehabilitation based on a program of neuroscience experiments conducted with monkeys. Evidence has accumulated to support the efficacy of CI therapy for rehabilitating hemiparetic arm use in individuals with chronic stroke. This book addresses the related topics.