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Instituto de Rehabilitación Infantil Teletón Chile. Dra Mónica Morante R Fisiatra IRI-Teletón-Santiago. Instituto de Rehabilitación Infantil Teletón Chile. Is a non profit Institution, for the rehabilitation of children and young people up to the age of 20, with motor disabilities.
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Instituto de Rehabilitación Infantil Teletón Chile Dra Mónica Morante R Fisiatra IRI-Teletón-Santiago
Instituto de Rehabilitación Infantil Teletón Chile Is a non profit Institution, for the rehabilitation of children and young people up to the age of 20, with motor disabilities. Was founded in 1947 in Santiago Chile, and since 1978 it began to grow quickly due to large annual, televised fund raising event known as TELETON Campaigns. Now, We have ten Institutes around the country and give medical rehabilitation assistance to around 26,000 patients throughout the country, with approximately 3,500 new patients, each year .
Instituto de Rehabilitación Infantil Teletón Chile The most frequent diagnoses are Cerebral Palsy (36,3%),Neuromuscular Diseases, Congenital Spinal Cord Injuries (Myelomeningocele) and Amputees. The socio-economical situation of our patients is 80% low income families, 63% are living in conditions of extreme poverty.
Instituto de Rehabilitación Infantil Teletón Chile The Mission is the Comprehensive Rehabilitation of children and young people with invalidating diseases. Our strong emphasis is on independence and autonomy :“To Rehabilitate in order to Insert into the Community”. The main activity is the comprehensive rehabilitation, but work too, in academical activities at pre and post graduate levels, clinical researchs and community activities. Our therapeutic model is a Bio -Psycho -Social Model.
Instituto de Rehabilitación Infantil Teletón Chile The professional team is: Physiatrist, Orthopedic Surgeon, Urologist, Neurologist, Pediatrician, Psychiatrist, Dentist, Physical Therapist, OccupationalTherapist, Education Therapist, Speech Therapist, Psychologist, Social Worker, Nurses, Nutricionist, Orthotist and Prosthetist, Bio Engineer, Professional Administrative Supporting, Volunteers people.
Gait Lab The Gait Lab was inaugurated in Santiago , in July 2002, and the second one started to work at the Institut of Concepción, in July 2009. We do 11 tests each week, about 40 each month. And, we have 2 hours for each test. The most frequent diagnoses are Cerebral Palsy (CP), Myelomeningocele (MMC) and Muscular Distrophy (DMD). To date, there have been done 3320 tests, about 2.000 patients.
Gait Lab The Gait Lab team, in Santiago, is constituted for two Physiatrist, two Orthopedic Surgeons, three Physical Therapist, one Bio Engineer and one Informatic Engineer.
Instituto de Rehabilitación Infantil Teletón Chile Ourinstitutionrecentlyparticipated in TRAMA Project, withotherLatinamericancountries and theEuropeancommunity. The TRAMA Project is the most important training project where our Institution had participated and the benefits are not only for the professional who works at the gait lab, the benefits had been for all professionals who work in our institution .
Instituto de Rehabilitación Infantil Teletón Chile • We are developmentsomeinvestigations, thatinvolucrategait´stools and new software, forexample: • Sway and vibratoryplatform • Gaitanalysis in patientswithMultilevelsurgery and LOKOMAT. • ComparisonbetweenBotox and Botulinumtoxinchinese. • And we are development new protocoltoevaluatepatientsbeforesurgeries, upper and lowerextremities (EMG protocol, forexample)
