Rehabilitation for Encephalopathy at Boya Clinic

The consequences of encephalopathy are what remains with a child after a past brain injury, once the acute period is over. The cause may have varied: oxygen deprivation at birth, an intrauterine or acquired infection, severe newborn jaundice, metabolic disturbances. The manifestations differ for everyone — delayed motor or speech development, altered muscle tone, difficulties with attention and learning, restless sleep. In one child mostly motor skills are affected, in another speech, in a third the lag is visible across several areas at once.

Boya Hospital (Yuncheng, Shanxi Province) admits these children as part of its core specialization — pediatric neurological rehabilitation. The line in a medical report determines nothing here: before the start, a functional assessment is carried out, looking not at scans but at the child's actual abilities — gross motor level on the GMFCS scale, head and trunk control, balance, fine motor skills, speech comprehension and vocabulary, self-care. An intensive program is assembled from that data — 6–9 sessions a day, 6 days a week: exercise therapy and physical rehabilitation, pediatric Tui Na massage, acupuncture and scalp acupuncture (work with points on the head), needle-knife therapy for pronounced muscle tension, apparatus-based physiotherapy, occupational therapy and sensory integration, speech therapy sessions, and warm Traditional Chinese Medicine procedures — herbal compresses and moxotherapy.

A functional approach instead of forecasts

A "full recovery" after brain injury cannot be promised, and the doctors at Boya do not promise it. The work starts from what the child can and cannot do right now: the starting level is recorded, and the nearest achievable goals are set — holding the head more confidently, sitting longer without support, taking first steps, adding words, coping more calmly with everyday situations. Then comes a repeat assessment and an adjustment of the program based on its results. The effect is noticeably stronger in children under 7–8 years, while the nervous system is more plastic, but Boya works with older children too: the goals are simply set to match their age and current tasks.

How to start

Send your child's documents — medical records, the neurologist's report, MRI and EEG results, a speech therapist's report if you have one. The hospital's doctor will review them and explain which sessions and procedures the program will consist of and what course length to plan for. The document-based consultation is free, and there is no prepayment: you pay on site and only for what your child has actually received. You can arrive, start, see the first progress, and decide there how long to stay.