Hgf Flashcards
Pedriac patients
Dr. Nichols
Children do not have SD bc more mobility in joints
False
Are kids small adults
No
Infants, school age kids, adolescents
Very young kid
May be held by parent while doing technique or exam
More calm and relaxed better evaluation
Warm your hands
Treatment modalities for young kids
No HVLA
ME difficult to perform in young kids
Articulately, stills, fpr, cs, cranial
Red flags kids
Neck pain, fever, hip pain, ortalni barrlow test do
Not for meningitis or heal broken bones
Kid issues
Torticollis, colic, poor sucking, sinusitis , gerd growing pain,
Cranial treatment
Poor suckle, infant constipation, birth trauma
Condylar decompression
BMT
Msk pain OMT
Examine joint above and below
Ortho exam too
Send home with exercise!
Stretch, strength training
Infants spinal curvature
C spine has slight lordosis, which increases as baby can support his/her own head
Thoracic kyphosis and lumbar lordosis have yet develop
Spinal curvature is very immature
Infants joints
Articulations are cartilagoinous
Bones infants
Maximum flexibility
Sutures infants
Not formed , freest
6 week baby wont stop crying, bloated and gassy
Posterior cervical muscle hypertonicity, compression of occipital condylar, incomplete lactose absorption, increased stress during gestation
Alllll-treat neck cranially, look at abdomen so have more open hiatus and get and spit up, but can still check it and see if restrictions also maybe gas drops for baby
Helmets baby
Decrease cranial rhythm and head has fluctuations dont wanna lock down will effect them
Hard baby head
Had premature closing of sutures
Babies heads are
Squishy and have movement , lots of cartilaginous connections, OA decompression bc nerves come out of here
Cranial dysfunctions infants resolve
With crying and suckling
At 6 weeks if not better
Occipital is the cranial bone most susceptible to dysfunction
Infants head accommodates to pelvic outlet during birth -usually birt trauma
Cranial SD
Birth trauma MCC
Occiput
Most commonly dysfunctional
Cnxii, ix occiput
Poor suck
Cnx occiput
Reflux, vomiting, colic
Cnxi occiput
Colic, muscular dysfunction