A descriptive study on the most common factors affecting the treatment of cerebral palsy patients

Date of Completion

2000

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy

Keywords

Cerebral Palsy, Rehabilitation

Abstract

The study was aimed to determine the common factors affecting treatment of cerebral palsy patient that the DLSU PT Interns Batch 2000 encountered .It was conducted at DLSU_HSC, College of PT. Batch 2000 were chosen a cerebral palsy patient during internship in any affiliation center of the school were the respondents. the study showed that the common factors affecting the treatment of cerebral palsy patients encountered by the DLSU PT Interns Batch 2000 as to coopetation were easy distractibility (79.3%), intellectual impairment (62.2%) , irritable or fearful patient (52.4%), discomfort durng an activity (48.8%), and easy fatigability (39%). regarding communication of the patients, factors were mental retardation (59.8%), lack of learning experiences (53.7%), lack of satisfying emotional and social experience (52.4%) , visual impairments (28%) and hearing impairments (24.4%), and presence of agnosia (15.9%). As to comprehension and implementation of home instructions, the factors encountered were insufficient knowledge of the caregiver about cerebral palsy and its management (64.6%), poor compliance of the care giver in carrying out home instructions (47.6%), financial issues (26.8%), and lack of family support (195%). On the presence of disabilities, the factors were spasticity (92.7%), persistence of infantile behavior or reflex reactions (64.6%), presence of orthopedic deformities (46.3%), athetosis or ataxia (41.5%), epilepsy (25.6%) , rigidity (25.6%), hyperkinesis (18.3%), and apraxia . The authors recommended that a follow up study correlating the factors affecting treatment of cerebral palsy patients with the commonly used approaches be made, and other studies of similar nature be made on other neurologic cases. An earlier implementation of research study is also recommended.

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