Pediatric Rehabilitation

Neurological Disorders

• Central Neurological – Brain and Spinal Cord
  • Congenital
    • Cerebral Palsy
    • Congenital vascular malformations
    • Other congenital metabolic CNS diseases
    • Leukodytrophies and hypothyroidism
  • Acquired
    • Traumatic brain injury
      • Abuse
        • Physical Abuse (Nonaccidental Trauma)
        • Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
        • Pediatric anoxic brain injury
    • Vascular malformations of the brain and spine in children
    • Pediatric stroke
    • Pediatric immune mediated diseases
      • Multiple sclerosis (including transverse myelitis)
    • Pediatric CNS tumors
      • Pediatric spinal cord tumors
      • Pediatric Brain Tumor
  • Pediatric neurodegenerative disorders
    • Pediatric neurodegenerative disorders
    • Toxin mediated encephalopathies
    • Freidreich’s ataxia
    • Mitochondrial cytopathy
    • Dystonias (except Torticollis)
  • Neuro-Behavioral with somatic presentations
    • Neuro-Behavioral with somatic presentations
    • Conversion disorders
    • Munchausen’s (by proxy)
    • Malingering
  • Central Neurological – Spinal Cord
    • Congenital
      • Spinal dysraphisms
      • Myelomeningocele
      • Other spinal dysaraphisms
        • Lipomeningocele
        • Diastermatomyelia
        • Caudal regression
        • Spinal bifida occulta
        • Pediatric syringomyelia
      • Genetic conditions
        • Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
      • Tethered cord syndrome
    • Acquired
      • Traumatic spinal cord injury
      • Spinal cord injury without radiological abnormality
      • Immune mediated
        • Multiple sclerosis
        • Transverse myelitis
      • Vascular insult
      • Diseases of the anterior horn cell in childhood
        • Spinal muscular atrophy
        • Polio
        • Poliomyelitis/post-polio syndrome
• Neuromuscular Disorders
  • Peripheral nerve
    • Plexus
      • Immune mediated brachial plexopathy
        • Pediatric Immune Mediated Brachial Plexopathy
        • Neonatal Brachial Plexus Injury
        • Acquired post-natally
        • Traumatic
        • Radiation induced
        • Radiation plexopathy
        • Immune mediated
        • Tumors
      • Lumbosacral brachial plexopathy including:
        • Traumatic
        • Immunce mediated
        • Radiation induced
        • Tumors
    • Nerve
      • Other causes of hereditary neuropathy including metabolic/pressure liability
        • Approach to peripheral polyneuropathy: evaluation and differential diagnosis
        • Approach to peripheral polyneuropathy: treatment
        • Hereditary sensory and/or motor neuropathies
        • Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies
        • Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN)
        • Ataxia telangiectasia
      • Acquired
        • Immune mediated CNS and PNS pediatric diseases neuropathy
        • Acute Immune Related Neuropathies
        • Acute motor axonal neuropathy
        • AIDP/CIDP Part 1: Evaluation and Diagnosis
        • HIV in Children and Adolescents
        • Pediatric critical illness neuropathy
  • Pediatric diseases of the neuromuscular junction
    • Toxic
      • Tetanus
      • Botulism
    • Myasthenic Syndromes
  • Muscle disorders
    • Congenital
      • Dystrophies
        • Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies
        • Fascioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
        • Congenital muscular dystrophy
        • Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy
        • Adult and Adolescent Onset Muscular Dystrophies Part 1: Evaluation and Diagnosis
        • Adult and Adolescent Muscular Dystrophies Part 2: Rehabilitation Management and Treatments
        • Emery Driefuss muscular dystrophy
      • Congenital myopathies
        • Nemaline rod myopathy
        • Central core myopathy
      • Myotonic disorders
        • Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy
        • Congenital and acquired Myotonia
        • Nondystrophic myotonia and periodic paralysis
      • Metabolic myopathies
        • Pompe’s disease
        • McArdle’s disease
        • Camitine deficiency
        • Tumor-related
    • Acquired
      • Inflammatory
        • Dermatomyositis
        • Polymyositis
      • Pediatric infectious myositis
        • Pediatric infectious myositis
        • Bacterial myositis
        • Parasitic
        • Viral and post-viral myositis
      • Toxin mediated myositis in children
        • Toxic myopathy
    • Other
      • Torticollis

Musculoskeletal Disorders

• Amputation/limb deficiency
  • Acquired
    • Pediatric acquired upper and lower limb deficiency
  • Congenital
    • Congenital Upper Limb Deficiency
    • Congenital Lower Limb Deficiency
• Bone
  • Pediatric congenital bone diseases (other)
    • Osteogenesis Imperfecta
  • Acquired
    • Pediatric fractures in developing bone
      • Stress
      • Greenstick
      • Avulsions
      • Salter Harris
    • Tumors
      • Primary bone tumors in children and teens
      • Osteogenic sarcoma
• Pediatric Burns
  • Thermal
  • Electrical
  • Lightening strike
• Joint
  • Congenital
    • Congenital hip dysplasia
    • Club Foot
    • Arthrogryposis
  • Acquired
    • Inflammatory
      • Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
      • Inflammatory Arthritides
    • Atraumatic
      • Legg Calve Perthe disease
      • Blount’s disease
      • Slipped capitofemoral epiphyses
    • Traumatic joint diseases in children
      • Osteochondritis dessicans
      • Patellofemoral syndrome in children
      • Pediatric hemarthrosis
• Soft Tissue
  • Congenital
    • Benign joint hypermobile syndrome in children
    • Marfan’s syndrome
    • Ehler Danlos syndrome
  • Acquired
    • Acquired inflammatory diseases of the joint in children
    • Bechet’s
    • Scleroderma in children
    • Systemic lupus erythrematosis in children
  • Traumatic joint diseases in children
    • Pediatric muscle strains
    • Pediatric soft tissue sprains
    • Pediatric enthesopathies
• Other spinal disorders in children
  • Pediatric spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis
  • Klippel-Feil syndrome
  • Scheuermann’s disease
  • Scoliosis
• Metabolic bone diseases in children
  • Osteoporosis/osteopenia in children

Cancer and Organ Transplantation

• Rehabilitation in blood malignancies including leukemia and lymphoma
• Neurofibromatosis
  • Type 1
  • Type 2

Genetic and Developmental Disorders

• Mitochondrial syndromes in children
• Hemophilia in children
• Sickle cell disease
• Down Syndrome

Cardiopulmonary Disorders

• Congenital vascular anomalies
• Acquired cardiopulmonary disorders in children

Pain Disorders

• Fibromyalgia
• Complex regional syndromes types 1 and 2
  • Complex regional pain syndrome Part 1: Essentials of Assessment and Diagnosis
  • Complex regional pain syndrome Part 2: Management and Treatment
• Adolescent pain disorders
  • Rehabilitation Approach to Adolescent Pain

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