Open AccessEffectiveness of Developmental Intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Implications for Neonatal Physical Therapy
Author(s) -
Marla C. Mahoney,
Melvin J. Cohen
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
pediatric physical therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.621
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1538-005X
pISSN - 0898-5669
DOI - 10.1097/01.pep.0000176574.70254.60
Subject(s) - neonatal intensive care unit , intervention (counseling) , medicine , physical therapist , medline , evidence based practice , psychology , physical therapy , pediatrics , nursing , alternative medicine , political science , law , pathology
Interdisciplinary team members interact with infants to facilitate progressive physiologic stability. The focus of the physical therapist's role is promotion of sensorimotor development in infants born preterm. The aim of this review was to examine evidence for physical therapist practice in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) as it relates to developmental intervention (DI) for infants born prematurely and to present the evidence of physical therapy techniques used in the NICU.