Rehabilitation of head injured children.

Rehabilitation of head injured children.

Correspondence to: Dr D M B Hall, Community Health Services, Clare House, St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 OQT. Epidemiology of head injury in childhood Between the ages of 1 and 14 years accidents constitute the greatest single cause of death and head injuries account for 40% of these, amounting to 403 in the United Kingdom in 1985.1 Only about one quarter of children who rece...

Post-traumatic tremor in head injured children.

In a survey of 289 severely head injured children the prevalence of significant tremor was estimated to be at least 45%. The tremor appeared at any time within the first 18 months after injury and in at least half the cases it subsequently subsided spontaneously. The implications of these findings are to question the mechanism of recovery and suggest that controlled trials of the treatment needed.

Rehabilitation of the injured child.

a School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand. b Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. c School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America. Correspondence to Shanthi Ameratunga (e-mail: [email protected]). Several r...

The Rehabilitation of the Injured: Occupational Therapy

Characteristics of injured children attending the emergency department: patients potentially in need of rehabilitation.

OBJECTIVE To provide an epidemiological overview of the characteristics of injured children and to compare hospitalized and nonhospitalized injured children to identify predictors of hospitalization and, with that, possible predictors of disablement. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of data obtained from a computerized trauma registration system and medical records. SETTING Department of Traum...