ArticleArchives of physical medicine and rehabilitation2021
Functional Gains in Children Receiving Inpatient Rehabilitation After Brain Tumor Resection.
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- Impact of intensive, multidisciplinary neurorehabilitation on functional independence following pediatric acquired brain injury (ABI): A matched cohort study.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicine · 2026Article
- Development of Functional Abilities Assessment in Paediatric Oncology (FAAP-O) Scale for Children and Adolescents Affected by Cancer.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Pediatric Physiatric Posterior Fossa Symptoms scale: Impairments and outcome in pediatric inpatient rehabilitation for posterior fossa brain tumors.Neuro-oncology · 2025Article
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- Cerebellar mutism syndrome: From pathophysiology to rehabilitation.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine whether children with brain tumors treated with resection benefit from inpatient rehabilitation and to explore what factors present at admission may predict better functional outcomes.
designRetrospective cohort design.
settingPediatric inpatient rehabilitation unit.
participantsForty patients (N=40; ages 3-21y; 42.5% female) admitted to the rehabilitation unit between 2003 and 2015 after brain tumor resection.
interventionsPatients received multidisciplinary rehabilitation therapies as part of their admission to inpatient rehabilitation, including occupational, physical, and speech-language therapy.
main outcome measuresFunctional outcomes included the FIM for Children (WeeFIM) at discharge and 3-month follow-up as well as WeeFIM efficiency.
resultsA repeated-measures analysis of variance using patient WeeFIM Developmental Functional Quotients (DFQs) at admission, discharge, and 3-month follow-up showed significant gains in total WeeFIM DFQ scores across time. Admission WeeFIM DFQ, time from surgery to admission, and age at admission provided the strongest model for predicting discharge and 3-month follow-up WeeFIM DFQ scores. Admission WeeFIM DFQ and time from surgery to admission provided the strongest model for predicting WeeFIM efficiency. Total Neurological Predictor Scale (NPS) at admission did not add predictive power to any of the 3 models over and above patient characteristics (admission WeeFIM DFQ, age at admission, time from surgery to admission).
conclusionsPatients admitted to inpatient rehabilitation after brain tumor resection made significant functional gains (as measured by the WeeFIM) during inpatient rehabilitation and continued to make significant gains 3 months after discharge. Age and timing of admission provided the strongest models for predicting patient outcomes. The NPS did not predict functional outcomes after rehabilitation when controlling for other variables known to influence rehabilitation outcomes.
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