Defining paediatric neurorehabilitation: You cannot improve what you cannot characterize
Defining paediatric neurorehabilitation: You cannot improve what you cannot characterize

Defining paediatric neurorehabilitation: You cannot improve what you cannot characterize

Dev Med Child Neurol. 2024 Apr 26. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.15919. Online ahead of print.

ABSTRACT

Neurorehabilitation is the primary therapy for neurological impairment in children, yet its potential to achieve change remains incompletely understood and probably underestimated. Understanding ‘the difference neurorehabilitation can make’ against a background of neurological repair and recovery as well as ongoing neurological development is an enormous challenge, exacerbated to no small extent by the lack of a ‘common currency’ for the description and measurement of the neurorehabilitation services a child is receiving. This review addresses attempts to parse neurorehabilitation treatment content in theoretically and mechanistically valid ways that might help address this challenge.

PMID:38666455 | DOI:10.1111/dmcn.15919