Care of babies with motor delays

Motor retardation, also known as psychomotor retardation, is characterized by delayed responses, incomplete intelligence, poor coordination of movements, weak social adjustment, softness or rigidity of the body, reduced spontaneous movements, and clenched hands. Research has shown that the brain is most plastic in infancy and early childhood, and that therapeutic and nursing interventions can reverse motor delays that would otherwise leave children with varying degrees of cognitive and behavioral deficits. Care requires a physician’s assessment of the child’s condition and the development of a scientific program of exercise care for the child, of which the following are just a few examples. Exercise care: physical exercise therapy and occupational therapy, according to the level of motor backwardness to set training goals and correct abnormal posture and reflexes, to induce the correct posture reflexes and regulate muscle tone, design games and work activities, to overcome coordinated hypotonia, spasmodic ankylosis, atypia and to improve and prevent motor dysfunction, so that the child will gain the ability to move. For children under 1 year of age, we do early integrated training, passive exercises or training such as lifting up, turning over, standing, sitting activities, hand grasping and relaxation, reaching, hand cognition, etc. For children over 1 year of age, we do active motor training such as prone position with hands support, sitting activities, walking, etc., and we also inhibit abnormal postures of all children. Each child’s motor training about 15 minutes, 3 times / day, 10 days for a course of treatment. Sensory care: Increase the frequency of auditory and visual stimulation for all the children, such as playing the womb sound for 30 minutes/times, 1 time/day, and arrange some flowers and grasses in the children’s rooms to stimulate the auditory and visual function potential. Often lead the child to parks, squares and other places, because infants and young children are generally more sensitive to external color and sound stimulation, in order to stimulate their visual and auditory senses, and promote brain development. Parents should interact with their children more often, including eye, verbal and physical interaction, which not only stimulates the child’s sense of sight and hearing, but also helps to increase parent-child attachment. Cognitive and verbal care: Children prefer and are more sensitive to pictures, cartoons, external people or objects, etc. Caregivers should use these to stimulate the child at a frequency of 1x/day to increase his/her cognition. children over 1 year of age should be made to imitate speech. In this process, the child should be constantly teased to make him/her more interested in language. Psychological care: Nursing staff should correctly assess the state of psychological development of the child and the child’s psychological needs through scientific methods, diagnose the child’s psychological developmental deviations in a timely manner, and respond to these psychological conditions to the psychiatrist in a timely manner, and then according to the doctor’s guidance on corrective treatment. In addition, the psychological needs of the children should be satisfied in time, such as the children generally need the company of parents, teasing, toys and so on. Other nursing care: 1, Tuina massage care: daily implementation of meridian acupoint massage method of Tuina massage on the child, 10 minutes / day. 2, comprehensive examination: in addition to the routine physical examination of the child, but also on the overall development of the child, nutrition, intellectual development and other checks and assessments.