Cerebral Palsy in Infancy. Targeted activity to optimize early growth and development

✍ Scribed by Roberta B. Shepherd (Auth.)

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cerebral Palsy in Infancy is a thought-provoking book which introduces a new way of thinking on the development and use of interventions. Relevant to current practice, it advocates early, targeted activity that is focused on increasing muscle activation, training basic actions and minimizing (or preventing) mal-adaptive changes to muscle morphology and function. The authors present recent scientific findings in brain science, movement sciences (developmental biomechanics, motor control mechanisms, motor learning, exercise science) and muscle biology. This knowledge provides the rationale for active intervention, underpinning the need for an early referral to appropriate services. The book features methods for promoting relatively intensive physical activity in young infants without placing a burden on parents which include assistive technologies such as robotics, electronic bilateral limb trainers and baby treadmills.

Cerebral Palsy in Infancy begins by specifying the guidelines for training and exercise, outlining the rationale for such intervention. It goes on to cover the fundamentals of neuromotor plasticity and the development and negative effects of limited motor activity on brain organization and corticospinal tract development. Neuromuscular adaptations to impairments and inactivity are discussed along with the General Movement assessment that can provide early diagnosis and prognosis, facilitating very early referral from paediatric specialists to training programs. The book ends with a section featuring various methods of training with the emphasis on preventing/minimizing muscle contracture, stimulating biomechanically critical muscle activity and joint movement.

An ideal clinical reference for those working to improve the lives of infants suffering from cerebral palsy.

CONTRIBUTORS: Adel Abdullah Alhusaini (Saudi Arabia); David I. Anderson (USA); Nicolas Bayle (France); Roslyn Boyd (Australia); Giovanni Cioni (Italy); Diane L. Damiano (USA); Janet Eyre (UK); Linda Fetters (USA); Mary Galea (Australia); Andrew M Gordon (USA); Martin Gough (UK); Richard L Lieber (USA); Jens Bo Nielsen (Denmark); Micah Perez (Australia); Caroline Teulier (France).

• conceived and edited by Roberta Shepherd with contributions from internationally renowned expert clinicians and researchers
• discusses new research and new evidence-based treatment interventions
• shows how to organize very early and intensive physical activity in young infants to stimulate motor development and growth
• therapies include the specificity of training and exercise, with emphasis on promoting muscle activity and preventing contracture by active instead of passive stretching
• methods include new interactive technologies in enhancing home-based training sessions carried out by the infant's family
• extensive referencing in each chapter for further study
• chapters feature ''Annotations'' which illustrate scientific findings

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front-matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages xi-xii
Acknowledgements, Page xiii
Contributors, Pages xv-xvi
1 - The changing face of intervention in infants with cerebral palsy, Pages 3-28
Annotation A - Aspects of motor training, Pages 29-50
2 - Corticospinal tract development and activity-dependent plasticity, Pages 53-70
3 - Re-thinking the brain: new insights into early experience and brain development, Pages 71-83
4 - Functional effects of neural impairments and subsequent adaptations, Pages 87-106
Annotation B - Findings from a series of studies of passive mechanical properties of muscle in young children with cerebral palsy, Pages 107-114
5 - The syndrome of deforming spastic paresis: pathophysiology, assessment and treatment, Pages 115-133
6 - Skeletal muscle changes due to cerebral palsy, Pages 135-155
7 - Early muscle development in children with cerebral palsy: the consequences for further muscle growth, muscle function, and long-term mobility, Pages 157-173
8 - Early diagnosis and prognosis in cerebral palsy, Pages 177-187
9 - Effects of motor activity on brain and muscle development in cerebral palsy, Pages 189-198
10 - The consequences of independent locomotion for brain and psychological development, Pages 199-223
11 - Training lower limb performance in early infancy: Support, balance and propulsion, Pages 227-267
Annotation C - Kick start: using the mobile infant learning paradigm to promote early leg action, Pages 269-274
12 - Treadmill training in early infancy: sensory and motor effects, Pages 275-289
13 - Very early upper limb interventions for infants with asymmetric brain lesions, Pages 291-304
14 - Constraint-induced therapy and bimanual training in children with unilateral cerebral palsy, Pages 305-322
15 - Interactive technologies for diagnosis and treatment in infants with cerebral palsy, Pages 323-327
Index, Pages 329-339