spina bifida

[Gajba]

I am doing exercises with one girl. She is seven years old, and when she was born she had operation on the spine (dg: spina bifida).
She was in rehabilitation program for a year and her parents stop that.

I am working with her one year without improvement.
She has discrete paresis (weaknes) on the upper extremitie.
Her leg is worse, she has paresis of nervus peroneus and nervus tibialis.
I see improvement only on her posture (she had lordosis and "scapula alata"), but nothing more.
What to expect?
Do you have any ideas, maybe functional stimulation....?

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[andrepaixao]

Can Anyone answer this question?
One month old child with myelomeningocele in L3-L4. What voluntary movements she would present in supine?

[estherderu]

dear collleague,

By googling spontaneous motor function infants spina bifida you will be able to find a lot of information on this subject.

Neonatal Loss of Motor Function in Human Spina Bifida Aperta -- Sival et al. 114 (2): 427 -- Pediatrics
is a full text article on neonatal loss of motor function
Evaluation of Motor Function in Young Infants by Means of th... : Pediatric Physical Therapy for information about the GM's (general movements)
An older article Elsevier and a recent one Elsevier by the same author

The general movements you may see will be dependent of the support the child is given.
For lots of information on SB I recommend going to Home-IF Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus /Hydrocefalie

kind regards

Esther