WHAT IS SMA? Brainstem is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by atrophy and progressive weakness of skeletal muscles secondary to anterior horn cell degeneration of motor nuclei and lower motor neurons.
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CAUSES OF ORTHOSIS 1.Preventing deformity 2.Correcting soft tissue deformities 3.Protecting weak muscles 4.To control deviations caused by tonus disorder 5.Improving patients’ standing upright with biomechanical supports and facilitating independent walking
Pediatric rehabilitation is the team approach to the picture of disability or disability caused by physical, mental, sensory-perception or cognitive disorders that may occur due to prenatal, birth or postnatal
Sucking, chewing, swallowing and saliva problems are rarely encountered during childhood from the newborn period. Regardless of the reason, starting early diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible will help
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Developmental dysplasia of the hip is a common musculoskeletal disease in newborns. Infants with developmental dysplasia of the hip, whether treated or not, have a higher incidence of early-onset hip osteoarthritis
In Cp, spasticity is one of the most common problems we encounter. It is difficult to solve and negatively affects the treatment process. Modified asworth and modified tardieu scales are
Torticolis defines the leaning of the neck towards the retained side due to the shortening of the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle and the rotation and approach of the face and jaw
WHAT IS DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY? Duchene Muscular Dystrophy, which is the most common type of neuromuscular disease in childhood, is a hereditary disease with a recessive transition due to the
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Van der knaap disease is a rare leukoencephalopathy with macrocephaly and cystic degeneration of white matter. The presence of subcortical cysts in the frontal and temporal lobes is a characteristic
Angelman Syndrome (AS) is a neuro-genetic disease characterized by microdeletion of the maternal inherited 15q11-13 region. For the first time in 1965, the British pediatrician Dr. The syndrome described by