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A Study of Home Treatment in Cerebral Palsied Children

Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine 1989;13(2):6-0.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Catholic University Medical College, *Seoul Community Rehabilitation Center
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The home treatment has been known too important in the management of cerebral palsied children. But the practical use of home treatment had many problems. The purpose of our studies was find these problems and then to establish reasonable treatment plans for solving them. Since February 1983 to July 1989, this study was performed in 81 cerebral palsied children who visited and treated at Seoul Community Rehabilitation Center.

The results as followed:

1) If parents with cerebral palsied children did not connect with the rehabilitation facility, due to many reasons, most of them did not continue home treatment.

2) Most of parents in cerebral palsied children felt technical insufficiencies to treat their children.

3) The major reasons of home treatment discontinuity: Patient's did not control their emotion properly and also did not have enough understand its importance.

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