Ambulatory Neurorehabilitation Service
The ASPACE Catalunya Foundation offers specialized neurorehabilitation services for people with cerebral palsy, multiple disabilities and other neurodevelopmental pathologies. This comprehensive care is provided through several specialized units, ensuring continued support throughout the patient's life.
Main Objectives
- Neuromotor Development: Improve the quality of movements and coordination.
- Prevention of Deformities: Treat and prevent orthopedic deformities during growth.
- Functional Autonomy: Increase the manipulative and functional capacity of patients.
- Language Improvement: Enhance communication and swallowing skills.
- Complications Control: Prevent respiratory problems and complications associated with age.
Composition of the Team of Professionals
The neurorehabilitation team includes doctors specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and engineers specializing in technological support resources.
Neurorehabilitation Areas and Units
- Physiotherapy Area: Focused on the evaluation and treatment of motor functions.
- Occupational Therapy Area: Intended to improve independence and autonomy in daily activities.
- Speech therapy area: Specialized in the rehabilitation of communication and swallowing functions.
Highly Specialized Neurorehabilitation Units (UAEN)
- March Unit: Improvement of gait and balance functionality.
- Swallowing and Nutrition Unit: Treatment of swallowing and nutrition problems.
- Support Technology Unit: Fostering autonomy through adaptive technologies.
- Sensory Integration Unit: Improvement of sensory and perceptive skills.
- Chronicity Unit: Ongoing support for patients with chronic conditions.
- Home Care Unit: Rehabilitation at home for more personalized attention.
- Aquatic Unit: Aquatic physiotherapy to improve mobility and muscle strength.
- Shock Wave Unit: Treatment of spasticity with shock wave technology.
- Respiratory Physiotherapy Unit: Improvement of respiratory function and prevention of complications.
Exclusive
Neurorehabilitation intervention is active and participatory, using specific techniques and materials for each type of therapy. Working with families is key to adjusting interventions to the particular needs of each patient.
At the ASPACE Catalunya Foundation, we offer comprehensive and specialized care for people with cerebral palsy and other neurodevelopmental pathologies, with the aim of improving their quality of life and promoting their autonomy, all thanks to a highly qualified multidisciplinary team and highly specialized units.
