Web Quest on Cerebral Palsy Donna Wooster Introduction You have just been assigned to work at the USA Children s and Women s Hospital for your next clinical rotation You will be working in Occupational Therpapy with families of children with cerebral palsy and covering both inpatient and outpatients You must research and prepare for this clinical rotation The class will divide into four groups each completing one of the tasks below You will report your findings back to the entire class in two weeks and provide handouts for all Task Each group will play the role of an OT with a slightly different task for the hospital Group One Medical Information Diagnostic Summary You will be the OT assigned to work with children with CP with spasticity You will find out all the most recent information about medical treatments and follow up therapy interventions for these children You must prepare an indepth diagnostic summary of this condition for your classmates Group Two You will be the OT Liason to the Parent support group run by the hospital You must find out about resources in the local and state community for parents You will coordinate an informational newsletter for parents and monthly meetings You must produce this months newsletter Group Three You will be the OT working closely with the MD providing spasticity reduction interventions for children with CP You must research the more common methods of reducing spasticity indications for their use and the role of therapy for interventions Provide a chart for your classmates highlighting these different technques indications contraindications and follow up therapy interventions Group Four You will be the OT with a focus on promoting independent living skills for children Research the intervention techniques used for treatment and the assistivie devices that OT s may prescribe for use Prepare a Cerebral Palsy Resources Medical Information Facts Medical Information http www geocities com Athens Thebes 6822 Wonderful list of resources and links about CP http murmur arch gatech edu crt Techknow MedConditions Cerebral Palsy htm Top Good site with many choices for information http www cpconnection com Good medical site with info and pictures some therapy info http hsc virginia edu medicine clinical pediatrics CMC tutorials cp type type html Facts and information http www med virginia edu cmc tutorials cp cp htm Links to seven medical libraries in Alabama http www uab edu lister alhela alalib htm Parent Support Groups Support Groups for parents http www webofcare com cerebralpalsy html Austrialian support groups for parents http members iinet net au scarffam cpa html Parents helping parents http php com CP Caregivers Community http www webofcare com cerebralpalsy html Specific types info Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy website written by parents for parents http www hemikids org Cerebral Palsy and deafness http deafness about com library weekly aa082399 htm Cerebral Palsy and vision loss http deafness about com health deafness gi dynamic offsite htm site http www deafblind com cerebral html Websites written by families patients The Craig Family CP Support groups http www cyberscapbook com page3 html Susie s website http www susiecphome com home html Resources for children Kidpower http www geocities com Heartland Village 9012 index Local state resources Mississippi American Cerebral Palsy http cerebralpalsy org staMS html Texas United Cerebral Palsy Association http www ucpdallas org children htm Alabama State Agencies http www nichcy org stateshe al htm United Cerebral Palsy Association links to each state http www ucpa org STAR State Technology and Assistive Resources Alabama http www rehab state al us star Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services http www rehab state al us Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program Database of Resources http www adap net database html Alabama Institute for the Blind and Deaf http www aidb state al us aidb Alabama Medicaid http www medicaid state al us Assistive Devices The Tech Knowledge Developmental Disability Resource for Georgia This site links you to coordination and manipulation devices very good overview of potential assistive devices http murmur arch gatech edu crt Techknow MedCondition Spasticity Management Wellness Site Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy HBO This site discusses the use of HBO to treat spasticity in CP references to ongoing research http www wellweb com index QCEREBRA htm Spasticity Management Site by Miller Dawn This site contains information about botox baclofen and rhizotomy Go to home page choose CP choose how to manage this condion http www miller dwan com content ind cerebralpal html The Information Exchange by Dr Frederickson Excellent clinical information on botox baclofen and zanaflex http askdrmark com Cerebral Institute of Discovery Nonsurgical interventions for treatment of CP http www cerebral org cptreat html Rainbow Babies and Children s Hosital Description of CP definition treatment and evaluation http www uhrainbow com Neuro Cerebral htm Botox new treatment in Mangagement of Childhood Spasticity Very interesting site with good explanations quiz on botox http www chsys org cme nursing botox botox htm Diazepam Information http www mentalhealth com drug p30 v01 html Mayatek Site for Cerebral Palsy This website lists reserch articles about the use of electric stimulation for spasticity reduction http www mayatek com publications CP cptitlepg html Process Each member of the team is responsible for collecting data on the subtopic Besides the websites listed above students are expected to review peer reviewed journal articles and relevant text books Think about all the resources available to you in the OT Department and in the USA Library System You are to gather information and create the following 1 An in depth diagnostic summary about cerebral palsy that includes factual findings about the condition and the types of CP 2 FAQ s by parents and answers Identify common parental questions concerns determine appropriate answers relevant to resources here in Mobile describe the role of OT to identify these needs Produce this month s newsletter with resources and FAQs for parents 3 Compare contrast spasticity management strategies to include botox injections baclofen dorsal rhizotomy and oral medications and the role of therapy in each of these procedures 4 Describe the role of occupational therapy with children with cerebral palsy for promoting independence in self care skills Provide
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