Physiotherapeutic Epidemiological Profile in Neurological Diseases in Childhood (Atena Editora)

Abstract

Introduction: Children with atypical motor development, or who present risk of delays, deserve specific attention and actions since the problems of coordination and movement control may last until adulthood. Epidemiological studies of neurological pathologies are important sources of data to help health professionals who work directly with this population, because they can positively interfere in the evolution and therapeutic success and improve the quality of care for the population studied by assessing the profile of involvement presented by patients, thus ensuring the provision of quality rehabilitation care. Based on this context, physical therapy is indicated because it has an important role in both the acute care of the patient to facilitate a faster and more efficient transition to the rehabilitation process in order to promote health throughout life. Objectives: To demonstrate the physiotherapeutic epidemiological profile of neurological diseases in infancy and, based on the results found, to construct and develop a booklet of guidelines and early stimulation for premature babies. Casuistry and Method: it refers to a documental research as to the type and quantitative as to the approach, where it is a retrospective study, with analysis of 234 medical records of pediatric patients who received physiotherapy care in the pediatric neurology outpatient clinic during the years 2018 and 2019, and of these 12 records were excluded, 7 for presenting incomplete data, remaining 222 records from which demographic data and epidemiological data were collected. The collected data were stored in the EXCEL program and later analyzed through tables and compared. Results: it was noted that as for the clinical diagnosis most of the children102 (45.95%) were prematurity, preterm newborn (PN) at risk for neuropsychomotor developmental delay (NPMD) followed by 46 (20.72%) of patients with Cerebral Palsy. As for gender, the number of male patients (53.60%) showed a higher incidence than females (46.40%).Conclusion: the prevalence of the diagnosis of the children attended were premature children at risk for delayed motor development, the knowledge of these data of the epidemiological profile provided subsidies for the development of proposals aimed at improving assistance as the construction of the booklet of guidelines for the family of these children, didactic and educational material that can help many mothers and caregivers in this process of recovery and rehabilitation.