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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Pediatric)
Our role
The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinic diagnoses and treats pathologies of the neuro-locomotor system. It provides rehabilitation and re-education following illness, accident or surgery.
"The Physical Medicine Department is a transverse unit that cooperates on a multidisciplinary basis with various HUDERF departments such as Neurology, the Pain Clinic and Orthopaedic Surgery Department.
We also work with the various paramedical teams to coordinate functional rehabilitation activities (physiotherapy, ergotherapy, speech therapy, psychology, social welfare, orthesist, nurses)"
Our specialities
The department is active in a number of key areas:
- Outpatient consultations
- Multidisciplinary functional rehabilitation for outpatients
- The prescribing of mobility aid in conjunction with ergotherapy.
The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department treats a large number of pathologies, such as:
- Pathologies of the locomotor system of mechanical origin
- Pathologies of the central and peripheral neurological system
- Functional disorders of diverse origin
The team is also concerned with the medical aspects of social and professional reintegration such as the prescribing of aids and pain management.
The team provides consultations in cooperation with other clinics:
- Multidisciplinary consultations for Cerebral Motor Infirmity in the framework of the CIRICU convention (Neurology team)
- Chronic pain consultations (Pain Resource Unit)
- Neuro-orthopaedic consultations encompassing the spasticity clinic, botulinum toxin injections and the movement analysis laboratory (cooperation with the HUB orthopaedics and neurosurgery team)
More info : Secretariat Dr Lombardo Costanza ciricu [at] hubruxelles [dot] be (ciricu[at]hubruxelles[dot]be)
Mobility assistance
The Children's Hospital Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinic offers a complex mobility and positioning assistance consultation. This consultation is aimed at patients who have difficulty moving around independently and who are requesting mobility assistance for the first time.
The medical and occupational therapy team you meet during their joint consultation assesses each patient individually, in order to :
- give recommendations on positioning
- advise on the choice of mobility assistance (wheelchairs, pushchairs, etc.)
- provide assistance with administrative procedures for mobility assistance (home-school accessibility)
- liaise with the child's school environment
- facilitate contact with other health professionals or partners, such as bandage specialists
Consultations on mondays between 9h and 12h, Neurology department Route 40
More info: Neurology department +32(00)2 477 31 74 accueilRDV2 [at] hubruxelles [dot] be
Dr Lombardo Costanza - specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation
Laure Bancourt - Ergotherapist
Marie Champaix- Ergotherapist
Focus
The clinic maintains inter-university collaborations in the framework of the ULB-VUB-ULg Reference Interuniversity Centre for Cereal Motor Infirmity (CIRICU) and the Belgian National Register of Cerebral Motor Infirmity (BeCPR).
The clinic is a member of the European Academy of Childhood Disability
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