The specialized orthopaedic team at Shriners for Children Medical Center — Pasadena provides complex, compassionate care for children with disorders that affect the hand, elbow and shoulder including painful joints, fractures or cerebral palsy.
Our medical team works to advance the lives of children through leading-edge surgical care, therapy and research for the many children with a congenital or birth-related difference in their hands, fingers or arms.
Las afecciones que se tratan incluyen:
- Adactilia
- Síndrome de bandas amnióticas
- Ectrodactilia/deficiencia central
- Aamputación congénita (deficiencia transversa)
- Luxación congénita de la cabeza del radio
- Polidactilia
- Sinostosis radioulnar proximal
- Radial aplasia
- Deficiencia del radio
- Simbraquidactilia
- Sindactilia
- Deficiencia del pulgar
- Trigger finger/thumb
- Deficiencia ulnar
Lesiones traumáticas
- Dislocations
- Seguimiento de fractura
- Lesiones en nervios y tendones
- Malformaciones postraumáticas
Afecciones neuromusculares
- Artrogriposis
- Parálisis del plexo braquial de nacimiento
- Parálisis cerebral
- Lesión de la médula espinal
Occupational therapy at Shriners for Children Medical Center is a unique form of rehabilitation that provides care to our patients who may be experiencing a variety of medical conditions, disabilities or dysfunctions in an effort to increase their ability to participate in life’s everyday activities.
Our hand therapists use their knowledge of the hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder to reduce functional problems and promote healing. Some common therapy interventions include, but are not limited to:
- Improving strength and range of motion (ROM)
- Training to improve daily function
- Fabricación de entablillados a medida
- Manual therapy to promote optimal movement
- Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT)
- Prosthesis training
- Taping to control or facilitate movement
- Return to sport
- Improving motor coordination skills
- Adaptive aid/equipment training
- Conservative pain management
- Activity modification education