Children even from the age of 5 are not immune to a traumatic brain injury. With their many activities, often unsupervised, they can fall, become injured in a sports activity or be a passenger in a car that crashes. Fortunately, today the medical care for brain injury is much improved from what it was 10 or 20 years ago. The effectiveness of the therapy will be the care received from the proffessionals and the support received from the family and community. Studies show that socially disadvantaged children with TBI had an outcome more adverse than those coming from a more adjusted community. Conversely there are findings that suggest that pediatric TBI has long-term effects on behavior and achievement but that post injury progress is influenced by the family environment. When it comes to residual physical disability the level of rehabilitation that the child receives plays an important role in a return to normalcy and a reduction of adverse socialization by the child’s peers.
Having the availability of modern rehabilitation tools such as the HANDTUTOR and LEGTUTOR can allow the child to rehabilitate at a faster pace than previous generations. The TUTOR system consists of a glove for the hand and a brace for the leg that are connected to dedicated software and afford the patient to exercise an affected limb. The TUTOR devices (which include an ARMTUTOR and 3DTUTOR) aim to optimize sensory and cognitive performance and thereby to better perform everyday functional tasks and improve quality of life. The powerful evaluation software gives the therapist objective and qualitative information on the patient’s functional impairment. Treatment sessions are thereby customized to the patient’s abilities.
Currently in use in leading hospitals and clinics in the U.S. and Europe the TUTOR system can also be used at home through telerehabilitation.
Certified by the FDA and CE more information is available by accessing WWW.HANDTUTOR.COM
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