“Where there is no fight, there can be no victory!” – well aware of that was Nikolina, a six-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, who with her perseverance and hard work, achieved what she once could only fantasies about. Nikolina is a girl who, after three months of her life, was diagnosed with a disease that was extremely difficult to face, Cerebral Palsy. Diagnose that did not allow her to move independently. She could not dress, squat or sit by herself or do any other day-to-day activity independently.
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of non-progressive movement and postural disorders caused by a defect or damage to an immature brain. The term “cerebral” refers to the brain, while “paralysis” refers to the disorder of movement and position. Cerebral palsy is an overall name for various disorders that affect child’s ability to move and keep his body in balance. The cause of these disorders is a brain injury before birth, during birth or during the first years of a child’s life. The injury does not damage the child’s muscles or the nerves that connect them to the spinal cord, but rather the brain’s ability to control those muscles. Depending on the location and severity of a brain injury that causes a child’s mobility difficulties, it can also cause other problems – developmental disabilities, epileptic seizures, speech difficulties, learning disabilities, hearing or vision problems. Cerebral palsy is considered a developmental disability because it affects the way a child develops. However, at the Glavic Clinic impossible things become possible! Nikolina came to the Glavic Clinic in the wheelchair on January 14, 2019. Back then her movements were restricted. With ROBOTIC neurorehablitation at the Glavić Polyclinic, Nikolina did several hours of daily exercise on various robotic devices such as LOKOMAT, which greatly helped her in her progress. Being a litter girl that starts the first grade of primary school in fall, thanks to hand-rehabilitation devices in the Polyclinic, she has learned to write, to draw and even to sit by herself on a chair without a backrest! She was persistent and a hard-worker because she knew it will pay off.
Now, after the successful rehabilitation at a neurorehabilitation center, her torso is much firmer, her musculature stronger, but most importantly, thanks to robotic devices for the rehabilitation of walk, she can now make her first modest steps with the help of a walker.
We wish to our dear Nikolina a successful start of the school year and we look forward to seeing her new progress with the rehabilitation!
