Neurokinex Kids
Our goal
Our goal
Our goal is to get kids back to doing what they do best – having fun and exploring the world!
Studies have shown that the young are even more receptive to neurological rehabilitation than adults due to their greater neuroplasticity. In other words, they have a greater ability for their nervous system to change and adapt.
Our bespoke rehabilitation programmes suit a wide variety of paediatric conditions including:
- Spinal cord injury
- Cerebral Palsy
- Brain Injury
- Stroke
- Transverse Myelitis
- Accute Flaccid Myelitis
- Spina Bifida
We tailor our Activity-based Rehabilitation (ABR) programmes to suit children of all ages, often including forms of our ground-breaking Locomotor Training and Wide-pulse Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation protocols.
Our specially trained team works to make the children’s sessions feel more like fun than work. Our purpose-built children’s unit at Gatwick is particularly geared towards creating this playground feeling, while the use of toys and games at Hemel and Bristol ensure the children’s sessions are playful to engage their attention and participation.
As with our adults’ programme, our activity-based rehabilitation techniques are tailored to each child’s needs. The benefits of our programmes vary from child to child but include improved motor and sensory function, improved cardiovascular and pulmonary function, better bowel and bladder control, increased blood flow and circulation and improvements in skeletal, skin and muscle development and health.
Why ongoing rehab is important
By participating in our cutting-edge Activity-based Rehabilitation programmes children living with paralysis can benefit from continuous improvement as well as promoting more normal growth and development. This in turn reduces the chances of secondary complications and the burden of care on their families.
Today’s injured toddlers could benefit from tomorrow’s neuroscience advances in treating paralysis – but only if we keep them physically and neurologically ready to make the most of future opportunities.
School Holiday Intensive Sessions @ Neurokinex Kids
During the school holidays, Neurokinex offers a ‘School Holiday Intensive Programme’ for children and teenagers living with neurological conditions such as Cerebral Palsy and spinal cord injury. Sessions are tailored to suit each individual. Goal-based, dependent on their needs, the sessions promote neurological recovery and skill acquisition. Among the ground-breaking protocols used, many young clients benefit from the innovative Locomotor Training programme, which aims to reawaken dormant nerve pathways by repetitively stimulating the nerves and muscles in the lower body to retrain the spinal cord to ‘remember’ or refine the pattern of walking.
The School Holiday Intensive Programme comprises either three one-hour block sessions or two two-hour block sessions per week. To find out more of book please contact gatwick@neurokinex.org or call 0300 77 77 188 and ext 4 for Gatwick.
Funding support
Funding support