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The neurorehabilition service supports children and young people who have been admitted to hospital due to illness or major trauma resulting in a neurological injury.
What we do
The neurorehabilitation service provides specialist assessment and treatment, focussing on improving movement and activity, and maximising your child’s potential to participate in everyday life. We work closely with parents and carers to support you in being involved in your child’s rehabilitation. We will provide relevant advice and resources to support you.
Where required, we will arrange the provision of equipment to support your child to become as independent as possible following their injury or illness.
We support children with a range of neurological difficulties including:
The neurorehabilitation service has a weekly meeting to share goals and develop appropriate plans of treatment. If your child has a prolonged stay in hospital, we will also arrange a meeting where parents and carers are involved too. These meetings are called multidisciplinary meetings, or discharge planning meetings, as we will be planning what your child needs to be able to be safely discharged home. We will invite your child’s school and local therapy services to this meeting if needed.
Who we are
The team includes:
- Specialty Neurology Doctor and Clinical Lead for Rehabilitation
- Consultant Paediatrician in Neurodisability
- Major Trauma and Rehabilitation Coordinator
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Psychology
- Hospital Teaching Team
- Play Specialists
As an in-patient, your child may be under the care of a number of different medical or surgical teams. The neurorehabilitation service work closely with them and the ward nursing teams to coordinate the care your child receives.
Major Trauma and Rehabilitation Coordinators
To support you and your child through the rehabilitation process, the team has Major Trauma and Rehabilitation Coordinators to assist throughout your child’s patient journey – starting at their admission, right through to the follow-up needs at home or school once discharged. The Major Trauma and Rehabilitation Coordinators will coordinate any meetings, and provide you with copies of any reports. They will also signpost you to other services or organisations who may help, for example the Child Brain Injury Trust (CBIT) for children who have sustained a brain injury, or Back Up for children who have an acquired spinal cord injury.
Specialist clinics
Following discharge, the neurorehabilitation team are involved in different outpatient clinics which your child may be referred to, including the Brain Injury Rehabilitation clinic or the Acquired Spinal Cord Injury Clinic. Children are also seen in Neurology or Neurodisability consultant or nurse-led clinics held at the Ryegate Children’s Centre.
Return to school
Our hospital teaching team from Kingfisher Academy will offer teaching sessions to your child while an in-patient and liaise with their school for appropriate schoolwork. At discharge, ongoing liaison with school is provided by the outreach rehabilitation coordinator and learning mentor to support return to school as soon as a child is able to do so.
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