{"id":9264,"date":"2023-08-30T00:13:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T22:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pes-luxembourg.lu\/bascharage\/pediatric-physical-therapy\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:19:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:19:15","slug":"pediatric-physical-therapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pes-luxembourg.lu\/bascharage\/en\/pediatric-physical-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pediatric physical therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pediatric rehabilitation<\/strong> often refers to the treatment of bronchiolitis, but it’s a much broader field, involving children from infants to adolescents, where parental involvement is the key to success<\/strong>. All newborns, infants and children require specific, high-quality care if they are to develop their motor skills effectively. Your pediatric physiotherapist in Bascharage listens to the child and his or her family, and tries to make the sessions as fun as possible to ensure the child’s acceptance of the treatment. The child must experience rehabilitation as a game<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The following is a non-exhaustive list of the various pathologies frequently encountered in paediatrics.<\/p>\n<\/div> Bronchiolitis is a seasonal epidemic respiratory viral infection of infants with human-to-human transmission between the ages of 1 month and 2 years. Every year, epidemic peaks occur from mid-October to the end of winter. Respiratory discomfort makes infants extremely tired, which can be distressing for them and those around them. Physiotherapy rapidly improves symptoms, helps relieve the child and provides the necessary advice to parents for better management at home.<\/p>\n The first symptoms are ENT, with rhinitis (runny nose) and a rather dry cough. Nasal obstruction is variable, as is fever, absent or moderate (around 38\u00b0C<\/abbr>). These symptoms may remain isolated, but often precede bronchiolitis by 24 to 72 hours, and should therefore prompt vigilance in epidemic periods.<\/p>\n Bronchiolitis itself is characterized by difficulty breathing and rapid breathing. Dyspnoea predominates during expiration, is more or less noisy, and is accompanied by braking (an increase in expiratory time compared to inspiratory time), or even thoracic distension and signs of struggle such as flapping of the wings of the nose or inter-costal and supra-clavicular pulling).<\/p>\n Certain signs of seriousness warrant an emergency consultation:<\/p>\n At the start of the disease, auscultation of the lungs reveals crepitants (dry and inspiratory) and\/or sub-crepitants (wetter and expiratory), especially in young infants. This is followed by bronchial rales and sibilants, sometimes audible at a distance (wheezing). After one year of age, auscultation reveals expiratory sibilant rales. Auscultation can sometimes be normal, particularly in severe forms with distended thorax.<\/p>\n Far from the traumatizing image<\/strong> often conveyed and used by many physiotherapists, your physiotherapists in Bascharage respect the child’s breathing rhythm and accompany him gently<\/strong>. The session begins with a clinical examination to assess the patient’s respiratory distress. This is followed by gentle inhalation and exhalation techniques to guide the flow of breath without pain. A nasopharyngeal obstruction will be performed to clear the upper airway, and the nosewash technique will complete the management and be taught to the parents. The physiotherapist will contribute to the health monitoring of the evolution of bronchiolitis on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<\/div> Plagiocephaly, or flat-head syndrome, is a clinical sign characterized by varying degrees of asymmetry of the cranial cavity in newborns, generally due to positional deformity. The potential consequences are numerous, with the risk of hearing, visual and digestive problems, scoliosis and motor and neurological disorders. That’s why it’s essential to have a specific follow-up program. Optimum care involves coordinated physiotherapy, osteopathy<\/a> and parents. Proper positioning of the child, encouraging free motor skills and securing the baby are all part of the treatment.<\/p>\n Preventive advice can be given to minimize the risk of positional plagiocephaly.<\/span> <\/span>In <\/span>Bronchiolitis<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
Plagiocephaly<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
Delayed motor development<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
Scoliosis<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
Orthopedics<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
Traumatology<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
Bronchiolitis<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
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Plagiocephaly<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>