Instituto de Rehabilitación Infantil

Teletón Chile

Dra Mónica Morante RFisiatra 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, Occupational Therapist, 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

Our institution recently participated in TRAMA Project, with other Latin american countries and the European community.

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 development some investigations, that involucrate gait´s tools and new software, for example:-Sway and vibratory platform-Gait analysis in patients with Multilevel surgery and LOKOMAT.- Comparison between Botox and Botulinum toxin chinese.

-And we are development new protocol to evaluate patients before surgeries, upper and lower extremities (EMG protocol, for example)

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