Occupational Therapy – educational issues

I’ve created this page separately to post my thoughts about working with children with head injury.

I’ve recently seen several young children with concussion/mild head injury who have not recovered quickly.  One of the issues I’ve been talking about with another therapist is the most effective way to manage the fatigue the children present with. They clearly tire more quickly complaining of problems such has headache, double vision or nausea. Or sometimes their behaviour changes, with obvious irritability. Previously, rest was prescribed for adults with the above symptoms. But more recently there has been discussion in the literature about the need for rest versus having a graded return to previous activities – ie that we don’t recommend sleep in the afternoon for example, but that people return to work quite quickly, even if for short periods on quite different duties.  My issue is that return to school is much harder… cant control as many of the variables as you can in the workplace, and also that these kids seem to need to sleep.  I’ll use this site to record what I find, and my reflections on my learning. Please feel free to follow my searching and to comment on what I find, or point me in the right direction.