Paediatrics 1 – Paediatric Neurology

The neuropaediatric centre works as a supraregional care centre for children and adolescents with cerebral diseases and disorders of the spinal cord, peripheral nerves and musculoskeletal system. High-level care is provided for patients by an interdisciplinary team consisting of paediatric neurologists, psychologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech therapists and paediatric nurses. Treatment concept corresponds to the latest scientific examination and therapy procedures and they are matched to each patient individually.

Due to the tight networking with the Social Paediatric Centre (SPZ), other departments of the clinic, paediatrists and therapists, high-specialised and comprehensible care can be offered even in complex diseases. In dealing with chronic illnesses, the physical, psychic and social context is of great importance to reach optimal life quality for each patient.

We offer wide-range psychosomatic treatment and pain therapy in our new ward for paediatric psychosomatics and pain therapy.

• Seizures and epilepsies
• Apraxia, cerebral pareses, dystonia, botulinum toxin, baclofen pump
• Development abnormalities
• Malformations, hydrocephalus, spina bifida outpatient department (§116 SGB V)
• Headache, migraines, neuropathic pain, special pain therapy
• Insomnia, sleep laboratory
• Multiple sclerosis, inflammatory diseases of the brain
• Neuromuscular diseases, peripheral nerve lesions
• Neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis
• Stroke and vascular malformations of the brain
• Restlessness of children with multiple disabilities
• Dizziness and somatoform disorders
• Neurodegenerative diseases

• Neuropaediatric ward (21 beds)
• Neuropaediatric outpatient department with special consultation
• Neurophysiological laboratory: four EEGs, two long-term EEGs video double picture recording, long-term EEG monitoring, evoked potentials, neurography, electromyography
• Sleep laboratory
• Quantitative sensory testing
• Psychosomatic treatment and psychosocial support

• Special outpatient departments
• Neurophysiological laboratory
• Quantitative sensory testing
• Sleep laboratory

• Quantitative sensory testing (QST) as an instrument for differential diagnostics of sensory malsensitivity and pain in children and adolescents with multiple sclerosis
• Diagnostics of diabetic peripheral neuropathies in the paediatric practice (supported by the DFG)
• Exist 1 study, everolimus with tuberous sclerosis
• BNS study
• Collaboration with the establishment of guidelines (gustatory and olfactory disorders, syncopes)

• Certification as Tuberous Sclerosis Centre
• Muscle Centre of the German Society of Muscle Diseases (DGM) with the Marienkrankenhaus Stuttgart (Prof. Lindner) and Tübingen University Clinic (Prof. Bornemann, Prof. Krägeloh-Mann)