中国中医科学院儿童脑瘫康复研究中心-医疗方法

The “Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Research Center” is a science and technology cooperation between the Chinese Traditional Medical Science Academy and Cerebral Palsy Research Center.

It is formed by Chinese Medical Science Academy experts among whom there are Chinese Traditional Medicine, Acupuncture, Massage, Rehabilitation specialists. These experts have been researching and treating cerebral palsy children for several years. In the process of their studies they have been assimilating the essence of the several thousand years of Chinese Traditional Medicine and at the same time the modern rehabilitation techniques, arriving to develop a four steps treatment for C.P. that consists in: Nerves repairing, Chinese Traditional Medicine treatment, Modern Rehabilitation Techniques, Parents’ Rehabilitation Guidance.

Chinese Medicine is mainly using oral medicine and fumigation methods. Fumigation can obtain spasticity release; dredge the main and collateral channels in the human body through which vital energy, blood and nutriment circulate and activate extravasated blood.

Chinese and other kinds of medicine and treatment cooperate, going through the barrier of the blood inside the brain, having a direct effect on the brain cells and obtaining in this way a “root-tip” (symptom-cause) double treatment effect.

This treatment is the result of a long time clinical practice conducted inside our therapy research lab, which sums up in a new kind of treatment for C.P. children. This treatment is simple, with minimal damage and has significant effect on releasing muscle spasticity.
Indication: poor head control in children with cerebral palsy, spasticity in lower limbs, ‘scissors’ gait, inability of bending the legs, joints flexion and so on.

It is also known as the point injection therapy. It is a treatment of diseases by choosing some Chinese or Western drugs and injecting them into specific points of the human body. On the basis of acupuncture acupoints, unites the pharmacological effects of drugs. It is a double stimulation organically integrated that gives full play to an overall more efficient treatment. This kind of treatment has a good effect on C.P. children with cerebellar hypoplasia, mental retardation, movement disorders, muscular atrophy, and so on.

It is the therapy that uses different acupuncture stimulations such as: scalp acupuncture, body acupuncture, ear acupuncture, needle point, magnetic circular needle acupuncture and so on.

This method has a significant effect in C.P. children, dredging the main and collateral channels in the human body through which vital energy, blood and nutriment circulate and activating extravasated blood. Moreover it improves the limbs motor function.

It is a painless treatment with no use of drugs or needles and that has ‘no side effects’.

Used to further develop the effect of acupuncture and massage, it is based on the theory of electron dynamic balance of yin and yang, and on the theory of Chinese acupuncture and massage which try to forcefully ease the balance inside the network of passages through which vital energy is circulating inside the human body.

Use of a special magnetic hammer, knocking on the meridians, acupoints, in order to dredge the main and collateral channels in the human body through which vital energy, blood and nutriment circulate and activate extravasated blood.

This treatment has also the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, of tonifying the kidneys and producing marrow; it can promote the communication in the nerves conducts, improve the movement function of the limbs. This treatment gathers up the effectiveness of acupuncture, massage and magnetic therapy all over the body.

Through IF electric current and magnetic field, in the part of the body struck by illness, blood circulation can be improved, nerves conducts regulated, spasticity in the muscles released, limbs motor function improved.

Massage is an important way to treat children with C.P. because it has the effect of balancing “yin and yang”, clearing up the meridians, revitalizing pent-up blood, easing the joints from contractures. The way in which we use massage in our Center is different from other “Chinese schools”.

We implement it according to the knowledge correlated with the Chinese Medical meridian theory, massage theory, modern neurophysiology, kinematics and we find it having special curative effects on children with C.P.

It is a kind of exercise therapy that provides diagnoses, treatment and prevention. According to the neurological development theory, the purpose of P.T. is to restrain abnormal reflex activity, promote the arising of normal movement, improve motor function, correct abnormal posture and promote physical mobility.

2. Occupational Therapy（OT）
It is a therapy that aims to rehabilitate the patient functions. O.T. tries to improve the motor skills of the upper limbs, the dexterity of the hands’ movement and the activity daily living capacity of a patient. According to the patient different needs, O.T. designs and implements special exercises related to daily living, occupational labor or cognitive activities in order to ease symptoms and improve ability.

Cerebral palsy is a non progressive brain damage caused by a variety of reasons. Besides presenting a central neuromotor dysfunction, about 3 / 4 of the C.P. children have also, in different degrees, some language problems. S.T. provides exercise training to improve language and communication skills and to cope with tongue functional and sound articulation problems (anarthria).

Rehabilitation experts implement a systematic and pertinent rehabilitation technical training to the parents of the children to allow them to correctly and effectively provide rehabilitation to their children. In accordance with the rehabilitation condition of the child, they offer to the parents a timely and new rehabilitation techniques’ guidance.

This method allows the child to really get the most correct and most timely rehabilitation therapy needed.

This kind of approach on the one hand can help to consolidate the effectiveness of rehabilitation therapy, on the other hand, stresses the need to keep an eye on the time the child is outside formal rehabilitation classes, in which postures and abnormal movements need to be corrected and restrained and the child needs to be guided to master different activity daily living capacities and learn how to manage the relations to be built with others.

The advantages of a “four step treatment” method

The “four steps treatment” is a method that takes the essence of Chinese Traditional Medicine and unites it with the modern rehabilitation techniques.

At the present time, inside and outside China, it represents the most effective way to treat C.P., hyperkinesia, spasms (convulsions) and epilepsy.

This kind of new approach to treat C.P., needs a relatively brief period of treatment, has fast effectiveness and clear results.

[1] Any of the longitudinal lines or pathways on the body along which the acupuncture points are distributed

[2] Intermediate Frequency
　