Improving Hand Function In Children With Cerebral Palsy
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Hand Function in the Child
Author: Anne Henderson, PhD, OTR
language: en
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Release Date: 2005-09-29
This comprehensive resource and clinical guide for students and practicing pediatric therapists features current information on the neurological foundations of hand skills, the development of hand skills, and intervention with children who have problems related to hand skills. Covers foundation and development of hand skills, therapeutic intervention, and special problems and approaches. Is readable, concise, and well-organized with a consistent format throughout. Integrates recent research findings and current thinking throughout the text. Emphasizes neuroscience and the hand's sensory function and haptic perception. Applies neuroscience and development frames of reference throughout. Implications for practice included in each chapter. Presents concepts in the foundation/development chapters that are linked with the intervention chapters. Seven new chapters reflect current practice in the field and cover cognition & motor skills, handedness, fine-motor program for preschoolers, handwriting evaluation, splinting the upper extremity of the child, pediatric hand therapy, and efficacy of interventions. Extensively revised content throughout includes new research and theories, new techniques, current trends, and new information sources. 9 new contributors offer authoritative guidance in the field. Over 200 new illustrations demonstrate important concepts with new clinical photographs and line drawings. Over 50 new tables and boxes highlight important information. An updated and expanded glossary defines key terms.
Improving outcomes in cerebral palsy with early intervention: new translational approaches
The aim of this Research Topic was to collate articles describing prediction of outcomes of pre- and perinatal lesions leading to cerebral palsy, basic research in animal models and human subjects, and ideas for, and trials of, interventions in the first two years of life. CP arises from insults to the sensorimotor cortex, subcortical axon tracts and subplate. The aetiology is complex and often multifactorial. The outcome is not simply a loss of voluntary control due to disruption of descending pathways, but also involves abnormal development of reflex and corticospinal circuitry. CP may be viewed as aberrant plasticity in response to a lesion, indeed, abnormalities in movement are subtle at first but develop subsequently. It is misleading to suppose that developmental mechanisms are self-reparative. The challenge is to understand activitydependent fine tuning of neural circuitry during normal development and to find how to promote desirable plasticity whilst limiting undesirable effects following developmental lesions. However, before proposing interventions, we have to develop our ability to predict the severity of neonatal insults. We solicited a variety of articles, including long and short reviews, original research and opinion pieces, from both basic scientists and clinicians. Likewise we, as editors, have complementary knowledge and experience in this area. Anna Basu is an academic pediatric neurologist and Gavin Clowry is a developmental neuroscientist.
Hand Therapy in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Practical Approach for Parents, Therapists, and Other Healthcare Professionals Handling Children with
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.