Pediatric Stroke and its complications on child’s life

Although it may be rare a stroke can occur from the infant years up to 18 years of age. As stated by Johns Hopkins Medicine, “Pediatric stroke is a rare condition affecting one in every 4,000 newborns and an additional 2,000 older children each year”. A stroke is caused by the interruption of the normal flow of blood to the brain and when a part of the brain doesn’t receive its regular flow of blood that carries vital nutrients and oxygen, brain cells die, causing a loss of brain function.

children who sustain strokes will suffer from Physical effects. In fact, these effects usually occur on the opposite side of the body from where the stroke occurred. For instance, children who have had a stroke affecting the left side of their brain may have weakness or paralysis on the right side. The left side of the brain controls reading, talking, thinking, and mathematics, so these skills could be affected. They will also have to relearn basic skills, such as walking, dressing, writing, speaking, or eating.

Rehabilitation is a vital part of the recovery for any child who has suffered from a stroke. Indeed, Once a child has been treated for their initial stroke symptoms, He/she has to go through a rehabilitation process that will assess the  child’s function and optimize its recovery

Overall, a child’s growing brain has a better chance of recovering from a stroke than an adult’s brain, and early rehabilitation can help maximize recovery and minimize the risk of lasting problems.

For this reason, our advanced rehabilitation robotic gloves are designed to help children relearn, recover, and reclaim life.

 SIFREHAB-1.31 provides Easy operation and use for both adults and children with post-stroke hand impairment. In fact, it helps the child carry out functional task-oriented training, including daily activity training such as stretching, machine holding, eating, dressing.
it is not only easy to use but also helps patients to exercise anytime, anywhere, to rebuild their hand functions, and of course, it’s a Cost-effective home therapy.
This hand glove comes with SIFCONTROLE an AC power supply and physical therapy equipment to provide passive training for stroke hands, effectively help stroke hand rehabilitation, and relieve hand+ finger stiffness and spasm.

On the other side, SIFREHAB-1.0 also guarantees safe, intensive, and task-oriented rehabilitation.it incorporates the recovery of daily-living-activity functions as well as an environmental adjustment at home. The ability to perform rehabilitation at home benefits functional and psychological performance as well as the independence of the child.
 To help children at different age ranges SIFREHAB-1.0 comes in different sizes including a specifically designed “child-size “. 

Stroke as it might seem rare but can happen to children at a young age and can lead to affecting the basic life skills of a child. Thus, rehabilitation in its different forms is highly needed and the long-term goal of our SIFREHAB robotic gloves is to improve physical function and regain independence.

REF : Pediatric Stroke