What do I need to know about pediatric cerebral palsy training?

Rehabilitation of pediatric cerebral palsy is a long process, during which parents have to spend a lot of time and money, which can be said to bring a heavy burden to the family, so home rehabilitation as a cost-effective way of rehabilitation is an indispensable part of the whole process of cerebral palsy children’s rehabilitation. So what should parents pay attention to in home rehabilitation? Below is a list of common considerations for parents. Firstly, parents should realize the importance of home rehabilitation. Parents are the most trusted people in the world and the ones who have the most contact with their children, so the compliance in the training process is better than the treatment. We all know that the rehabilitation training emphasizes the initiative, and the higher the initiative of the children, the better the effect of the rehabilitation training compared with the children with the same type of cerebral palsy, so the parents are the best therapists for the children. In addition, rehabilitation training also emphasizes continuity, if the parents do not continue the training after the child is discharged from the hospital, then the probability of the training effect rebound is still relatively high, and the child with good continuity of rehabilitation training will be closer to normal growth and development in the future. So parents must pay attention to, must be home training, and not three days fish two days sun net. Second: pay attention to safety during training. Many parents of children with children for a long time to bring their children around to seek medical treatment, watching their children grow day by day, away from the best treatment period more and more far, coupled with a long time to take care of the child irritable, in the process of training the child’s rough action, completely ignoring the child’s cries and pull hard, which is in fact very dangerous. As we said, rehabilitation training emphasizes the initiative, this way is not only poor initiative, but also very easy to hurt the child, but also the child’s psychological shadow. Especially when parents are doing pulling and lowering tension on their children, they should never do it the hard way. Our soft tissue stretching training requires gentle and slow movements, continuous force, the most taboo is violence, that is not only ineffective, but also counterproductive. This is one thing, and the other is the amount of training. Children’s energy and physical strength is not comparable to adults, so parents in the training time to combine labor and leisure, will be the total training time to split up the meal to eat one bite at a time, excessive fatigue is not only a kind of harm to the child’s body, but also a kind of doubling of half the result of the training, while a long period of time of boring training will make the child lose patience and do not take the initiative to cooperate. Rehabilitation training is a gradual process, so please parents in the training process must not be anxious, be patient, more encouragement to the child to increase their confidence. Thirdly, home training should be conducted under the guidance of a professional rehabilitation therapist. In my encounter with many parents they are also very active to the child training, also actively learning how to give the child training, but sometimes did not grasp a good degree, heard others say that a certain action training effect is very good or they take for granted that this action can be immediately go to bring their own children to do. In fact, this is a very bad practice, each child although the general situation is the same, but they also exist a lot of individual differences, the rehabilitation therapist in the training process will be a combination of the two and designed for the child’s training program, some of these actions are applicable to everyone, but some of this child can use another child may not be able to use, with the effect of not urgent or even dangerous movements. For example, a very simple sit-ups to train the child’s abdominal muscles, this movement can be used by most children, but if the child has a lumbar skeletal deformity or dysplasia, then this action is contraindicated. And parents should realize that they are not professional therapists, a lot of professional knowledge of things parents do not understand can be taken for granted, so in the process of rehabilitation training must listen to the guidance of the child’s rehabilitation therapist, more with the therapist to communicate and learn, do not understand to ask, do not blindly listen to others, and do not easily make their own decisions. Finally, I would like to remind parents that the rehabilitation of pediatric cerebral palsy requires early detection, early diagnosis, early intervention and early treatment, so as not to miss the optimal period of treatment, and that family training should be comprehensive, and it is best for the whole family to cooperate with the family and supplemented by the transformation of the family environment. In addition, parents should realize that rehabilitation is not just about getting up and going, but emphasizes the child’s self-care ability and ability to survive and the quality of his/her future life, especially for older children.