What are the common accessories for children with cerebral palsy?

  Commonly used aids for children with cerebral palsy include aids to promote normal motor development, posture maintenance aids, orthopedic devices, daily living aids, and mobility aids.  These aids can effectively promote the normal development of children with cerebral palsy.  Posture maintenance aids for children with cerebral palsy mainly include lying, sitting and standing posture maintenance aids. These assistive devices mainly provide support for children with cerebral palsy to improve and maintain the posture of lying, sitting and standing.  1. Reclining posture aids: They can be divided into lying down, prone, and side lying aids. It is used to maintain good resting posture and prevent the reduction of spasticity.  2, sitting posture aids: the role of sitting posture aids is to improve the body alignment and symmetry, promote the relaxation of spastic muscles, and enhance the function of compensation for lost or absent functions. Commonly used sitting aids can be divided into four categories: feeding chairs, corner chairs, pendulum type sitting chairs and quantitative sitting chairs.  3, standing position aids that is often referred to as standing frame, commonly used are standing bed, upright standing frame or standing cabinet. Must be selected according to the child’s ability and situation.  The standing bed is usually used for children with hypotonia, poor head and upper trunk or poor proximal stability; or children with high muscle tone. Upright stands or standing boxes are usually used for children who have good hand and trunk control but are still unable to stand independently. For example, children who are learning to move from sitting to standing are supported by wide chest and hip straps and knee braces. Adjustable footwear or heel plates.  The role of orthotics is to prevent and correct the deformity of the limb, inhibit tension, support stability and improve function. Mainly including ankle foot orthosis, knee deformity orthosis, hip orthosis, wrist, finger deformity orthosis, etc.  Commonly used aids for self-care in daily life mainly include eating aids, toileting and incontinence aids, transfer aids, etc. Commonly used eating aids include: universal cuffs with various easy-to-grip spoons and forks, plates and bowls with suction cups at the bottom, plate stops, chopsticks with springs. Commonly used toileting and incontinence aids include toilet chairs, diapers and diapers. Commonly used mobility aids are ordinary wheelchairs, electric wheelchairs, crutches, walking frames, etc.  Commonly used learning aids mainly include learning chairs, pencil grip aids, etc. Learning chairs can be customized for patients to improve their abnormal posture and stabilize or assist in trunk stability. Commonly used pencil grip aids include thickened and enlarged pen grips, special pencil grippers, wrist fixation brackets (vertical wrist braces), ball-shaped pens, weighted pens, etc.  The selection of assistive devices for children with cerebral palsy varies from person to person and is highly individualized and specialized. Professional assessment and training guidance should follow the characteristics of promoting development and improving function.