POSSIBILITIES OF REHABILITATION MEASURES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF CHILDREN WITH COMPLICATIONS OF BIRTH INJURIES OF THE CERVICAL SPINAL CORD AND SPINE

Abstract

One of the important problems of modern pediatrics and child neurology is
the problem of improving the quality of life (QOL) of children with natal spinal injury and
optimizing rehabilitation measures, which occupies a special place in the structure of morbidity
and disability of the child population. The medical concept of quality of life includes primarily
those indicators that are related to the state of human health. The main categories on which the
study of the medical aspects of quality of life is based stem from the components of the
definition of health, which was given by WHO in 1948: “health is a state of complete physical,
mental and social well-being and not simply the absence of disease or infirmity”. In pediatrics,
very little attention is paid to the problem of studying quality of life, although awareness of the
importance of determining it in children and adolescents has already come: “The introduction of
quality of life and methods for its study into the apparatus of child ecology will allow a broader,
more systematic approach to the problems of developing children’s health“