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Physical therapy guideline for children with malnutrition in low income countries: clinical commentary

Physical therapy intervention along with nutritional rehabilitation has recently become an inevitable combo after recent evidences suggesting a strong interaction between malnutrition and neuro-muscular disabilities which contribute to a significant burden in global settings. Recent studies confirm...

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Autores principales: Bekele, Abey, Janakiraman, Balamurugan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Exercise Rehabilitation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27656622
http://dx.doi.org/10.12965/jer.1632674.337
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description Physical therapy intervention along with nutritional rehabilitation has recently become an inevitable combo after recent evidences suggesting a strong interaction between malnutrition and neuro-muscular disabilities which contribute to a significant burden in global settings. Recent studies confirm that appropriate physical assessment of neuro-musculo skeletal system, developmental assessment or cognitive tools along with nutritional assessments followed by exercise rehabilitation will yield positive results in children with malnutrition. There is an obvious need to make available a simple physical therapy exercise guidelines with simple measure and exercise to be used in resource limited settings of developing countries. The purpose of this clinical commentary is to summarize simple assessment tools to evaluate activity impairment, participation restriction, gross motor activity and simple physical therapy intervention program for children with disability secondary to malnutrition.
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spelling pubmed-50313882016-09-21 Physical therapy guideline for children with malnutrition in low income countries: clinical commentary Bekele, Abey Janakiraman, Balamurugan J Exerc Rehabil Review Article Physical therapy intervention along with nutritional rehabilitation has recently become an inevitable combo after recent evidences suggesting a strong interaction between malnutrition and neuro-muscular disabilities which contribute to a significant burden in global settings. Recent studies confirm that appropriate physical assessment of neuro-musculo skeletal system, developmental assessment or cognitive tools along with nutritional assessments followed by exercise rehabilitation will yield positive results in children with malnutrition. There is an obvious need to make available a simple physical therapy exercise guidelines with simple measure and exercise to be used in resource limited settings of developing countries. The purpose of this clinical commentary is to summarize simple assessment tools to evaluate activity impairment, participation restriction, gross motor activity and simple physical therapy intervention program for children with disability secondary to malnutrition. Korean Society of Exercise Rehabilitation 2016-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5031388/ /pubmed/27656622 http://dx.doi.org/10.12965/jer.1632674.337 Text en Copyright © 2016 Korean Society of Exercise Rehabilitation This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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