What do you mean by slow development?
Developmental retardation refers to the suspected abnormality in cognition, language and communication, psychosocial development or self-care ability, which is confirmed by professional medical appraisal. If a child's development differs from other normal children by more than two standard deviations, it belongs to "developmental abnormality". There are many reasons for children's stunting. At present, it is known that genetic and environmental factors are the biggest, and environmental factors include acquired nutrition and family environment stimulation.
How to treat Chinese medicine
The treatment of developmental delay is mainly based on early education, including physical or functional rehabilitation and sensory integration stimulation. Through activity training, it can produce positive feedback, promote children's nerve development, enhance muscle strength, and improve the degree of developmental retardation. If language development is slow, they will receive professional language therapy. Generally speaking, before the age of three, it is the golden age to treat developmental retardation. Early diagnosis and early treatment can improve the effect by more than 10 times, which shows the importance of early treatment and early education.
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, ancient books recorded "five tardiness and five softness", including "standing late, walking late, speaking late, hair late, teeth late", "neck soft, mouth soft, feet soft, tendons soft" and so on. This paper describes the manifestations of children's developmental retardation, including children's late learning to sit, stand or walk, and language delay, which is different from modern medicine. Chinese medicine believes that growth and development have a lot to do with kidney. "Kidney is the innate foundation, kidney stores essence, is the main source of bone marrow, and brain is the marrow sea". Kidney essence can promote the growth and development of bones and give birth to bone marrow, brain marrow and spinal cord. "Liver stores blood and binds muscles in the body", and liver blood can nourish bones and muscles and make exercise flexible. Deficiency of kidney essence or liver blood deficiency will lead to weak bones and malnutrition of bones and muscles, which will lead children to stand and walk later.
In addition, digestive function also plays an important role in growth and development! Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen governs transportation and transformation, and the spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood biochemistry. The spleen and stomach digest food and turn it into subtle substances, which produce qi and blood and supply it to children as a source of energy for growth. If the child has a bad appetite, or three meals are uncertain and greedy for ice products, it will lead to damage to the spleen and stomach and affect the normal growth and development of the child.
At present, the research of traditional Chinese medicine treatment shows that acupuncture plus massage and traditional Chinese medicine combined with routine physical therapy and functional therapy are helpful to improve the intelligence, language and physical activities of children with cerebral palsy. Among children with five stagnation, the common TCM syndromes are as follows: 1. Deficiency of kidney essence:
It can be seen that after birth, skeletal muscles tend to be weak and develop slowly, sitting, standing, walking and teething are obviously later than normal children of the same age, and the fontanel is closed slowly and slightly sunken.
2. Spleen and stomach weakness:
Such children are thin, weak in limbs and muscles, unable to bear loads, indigestion, poor appetite and frequent diarrhea.
3. liver blood deficiency:
Symptoms can be seen as slow hair growth, dry and dull hair, and tendons are often in a tight state and cannot be properly relaxed. In addition, standing slowly and walking slowly, the claw nails are fragile and the grip strength is poor. In addition to routine early treatment and traditional Chinese medicine physiotherapy, you can also help your child "chiropractic" at home. Operation mode of chiropractic: Apply the force corresponding to the index finger, middle finger and ring finger with both hands, pinch the muscles on both sides of children's spine, and open the width of the two knuckles from the middle side (based on the width of children's index finger and middle finger), with the thumb at the back, the other three fingers at the front and the third finger at the back, and push the thumb forward a little at a time. Starting from the coccyx, slowly move up until the back of the neck. Physiologically speaking, there is a spinal cord in the spine, from which nerves branch. Full-body walking and chiropractic can help build and improve the nervous system. According to the meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine, there are bladder meridians on both sides of the spine. Shu points on the bladder meridian can dredge the whole body's qi and blood, and the bladder meridian enters the collaterals of the brain. Massage the bladder meridian can strengthen the blood circulation of the brain. It should be noted that if a child is diagnosed as a mentally retarded child, it should be interviewed, tested, evaluated and understood by medical professionals and parents, and then appropriate medical education should be provided according to the needs of the child, and Chinese medicine should be cooperated to improve the development of mentally retarded children at the critical period of 0-6 years old.