131 resultados para Cerebral Plasticity
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Cerebral palsy (CP) describes a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain.A child with cerebral palsy may have impairments in motor control, which contributes to loss of functional abilities in posture and mobility. The severity of the impairment on the neuromuscular system determines the variations of functional mobility in children with cerebral palsy. The control of the patient, during the dental treatment, is of fundamental importance because these patients present some pathological reflexes which interfere in the odontological assistance
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Cerebral paralysis is a chronic illness that affects the central nervous system. In this article the author describes the techniques used at CAOE (Odontological Center for Assistance to patients with special needs) to restraint CP patients during dental treatment, because they present some pathological reflexes which interfere in their odontological assistance. Also it shows how to perform a special physical restraint and how to keep the mouth open by using simple tools including a homemade one. All the devices used during the dental treatment in cerebral palsy patients, such as the physical restraint with bands or sheet to wrap them up, cylindrical pad or cushion made of a soft material, or simple tools including a homemade one to keep the mouth open are usually and safely used in CAOE. All these simple devices are necessary, because there are no available funds for the acquisition of expensive material or equipment. Despite of a shortage of resources we can easily and efficiently assist these patients.
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
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O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a evolução ponderal pós-gastrostomia em crianças com paralisia cerebral tipo tetra-plegia espástica. Mediante análise de variância para dados pareados, 33 crianças foram avaliadas nos momentos: 6 meses antes, à gastrostomia, 6 meses e 18-24 meses após. A mediana da idade à gastrostomia foi de 48,1 meses. 75,8% eram do gênero masculino. Houve ganho ponderal na comparação dos momentos: 6 meses antes, à gastrostomia e 6 meses após em relação a 18-24 meses após (p<0,001). Utilizando-se referencial específico de crescimento para paralisia cerebral, à gastrostomia e 18-24 meses após as crianças apresentavam percentil ≤10 (respectivamente, 52,4% e 33,3%) e >10 (respectivamente, 47,6% e 66,6%). As medianas do escore z do peso foram: 6 meses antes (-5,1), à gastrostomia (-5,0), 6 meses após (-4,7) e 18-24 meses após (-4,4), não havendo diferença significativa. Escore z ≤-2 foi observado em 75% das crianças 6 meses antes, 81,8% à gastrostomia, 75% 6 meses após e 64,5% 18-24 meses após. Na análise da mediana da idade, para as crianças com idade ≤ 48,1 meses não houve diferenças no escore z nos diferentes momentos. Para aquelas com idade >48,1 meses houve diferença significativa entre 6 meses antes e 18-24 meses após. Considerando as crianças mais (z≤-5,0) e menos (z>-5,0) comprometidas nutricionalmente, houve diferença significativa entre as mais comprometidas (p = 0,04) na comparação entre gastrostomia com 6 meses após e com 18-24 meses após. Este estudo demonstrou que 18-24 meses após a gastrostomia houve aumento ponderal para todas as crianças e aumento do escore z do peso naquelas com mais idade e mais comprometidas nutricionalmente.
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
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Pós-graduação em Enfermagem - FMB
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Pós-graduação em Engenharia Mecânica - FEG
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
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The aim of this research was to apprehend the effects of text reading in S.'s writing productions, a child in literacy process. S. is a child who can't speak or write by her own due to a dystonic quadriplegic CP. S. communicates with Blissymbols which were introduced in a school-clinic in São Paulo city when she was six years old. At the same time the literacy process took place and she indicated symbols, letters and numbers in a board by scanning. The teacher related S.'s difficulties concerning reading activities, so a weekly activity was proposed by the speech therapist in the classroom. The teacher and her assistant participated in the activity. A cutout of the activity involving a book reading when S. was between eight years and seven months old and nine years and one month old was analysed. The research was based in Borges (2006) grounded in The Brazilian Interactionism according to De Lemos (1992; 1995 and others) and proposes a literacy process among students from the first series in a regular school by the reading of different texts. The activity guided by the speech therapist took place side by side with the literacy program guided by the teacher and resulted in various S's text productions. The data was collected through film transcriptions from the activities in the classroom and from materials produced by S. through the reading of the chosen book. These data integrates NALíngua-CNPq databases coordinated by Dr. Alessandra Del Ré whose aim is to investigate the language acquisition process. S.'s reading and writing acquisition occurred in a singular way, affected by the using of Blissymbols that became S.'s speech modality: a written-speech with symbols and alphabetic writing