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A 5 page overview of techniques utilized to enhance patient motor skills. The author emphasizes the advantages of such techniques as Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) and progressive prompt delays. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Brain injuries are a shocking fact of life in industrialized
countries. Some fifty to one-hundred thousand people in the U.S. alone become permanently disabled yearly as a result of brain injuries (Driver, Harmon, and Block 2003). Children, it
seems, are particularly susceptible to brain injuries. Forty percent of the head injuries that occur in the U.S. occur in children (Driver, Harmon, and Block 2003). This translates
to one of every thirty children under the age of sixteen (Driver, Harmon, and Block 2003). Those that survive either physical or physiological related injury are too often left
with lingering problems. Acquired brain injuries can, in fact, result in serious problems. Health professionals, parents, friends and the community as a whole are left with the problem
of how to best rehabilitate these children. The propensity for motor problems alone that relate to head injuries is disturbing enough. Berger-Gross
and Karman (2004) reports that either inborn or acquired brain injury associated with unilateral paralysis (hemiplegia), for example, occurs in one of every one-thousand children. Some forty-one thousand children
aged five to fourteen in the U.S. alone are inflicted with this condition (Berger-Gross and Karman, 2004). The ability to perform everyday tasks can be extremely affected because the
child often has full use of only one hand (Berger-Gross and Karman, 2004). Even motor skills such as walking can be terribly impacted because of the unilateral impairment of
the body. Walking gait, in particular, can be affected (Berger-Gross and Karman, 2004). Physical therapy can result in significant improvements
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