Paediatric Neurorehabilitation Unit
The Paediatric Neurorehabilitation focuses on the set of measures which, in an overall and interdisciplinary way, seek to offer responses to transitory or permanent needs caused by alterations in development or deficiencies in early childhood. Its aim is to promote the greatest autonomy possible in the child and to boost the development of their capacities.
The Paediatric Neurorehabilitation Unit in Clínica Corachan's Neurosciences Department is aimed at children and adolescents with neurological diseases, alterations in their development or at risk of suffering from them. Specifically, all those with any of the following pathologies:
- Infantile Cerebral Palsy (ICP)
- Prematurity
- Cerebral haemorrhage
- Congenital torticollis
- Tumours of the central nervous system
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
- Pervasive developmental disorder (PDD)
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
- Foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
- Epilepsy
- Rare diseases and neurogenetic syndromes
- Impaired development
- Motor development disorder
- Cognitive development disorder
- Sensorial development disorder
- Language development disorder
- Behavioural disorder
- Emotional disorder
- Somatic expression development disorder (functional pathologies in the oral, feeding, respiratory and sleep-wake cycle areas, bowel control, etc.)
Services that participate in paediatric rehabilitation
- Neuropediatrics
- Neurosurgery
- Infant and Youth Psychiatry
- Traumatology and Orthopaedics
- Paediatric Rehabilitation
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Epilepsy Unit
- Infant and Youth Neuropsychology
- Infant Psychology
- Psychomotricity
- Early care
- Perinatal Care
- Family Paediatrics
- Paediatric Physiotherapy
- Respiratory Physiotherapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Hydrotherapy
- Speech Therapy
- Nursing Staff
What do we offer?
- Preparation, execution and assessment of intervention plans, diagnoses and rehabilitation treatments
- Detection, identification and localisation of brain damage
- Follow up on the evolutionary development as part of the therapeutic process
- Assessment of reintegration into the social and educational area
- Assessment of the cognitive abilities
- Assessment of special education needs
- The study and assessment of family needs, as well as training reference people to be able to offer patients therapeutic continuity, in particularly those who are outside Barcelona, with a communication system and later online follow-up.
Rehabilitation programmes
Rehabilitation programmes are a set of specialist rehabilitating assessments and treatments focusing on a specific deficit. These programmes can be set up individually or related to a more overall programme of intervention.
Intensive rehabilitation programmes in:
- Disorders of cognitive functions
- Learning problems
- Mental deficiency
- Language disorder
- Swallowing disorder
- Communication and social interaction disorders
- Motor skill disorder
- Dysgraphia
- Dyspraxia
- Psychomotor instability
- Behavioural disorders
- Negative, challenging, hostile and aggressive behaviour
- Obsessive behaviour and ritual
- Hyperactivity
- Problems with bowel control
- Movement disorders, hemiplegia and tetraparesis
- Rehabilitation of multiple traumas as a result of falls, traffic accidents or sport