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Massage for very severe self-injurious behaviour in a girl with Cornelia de Lange syndrome
D R Dossetor1, S Couryer, A R Nicol
1Department of Child Psychiatry, Leicester University Medical School.
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
The authors report the use of massage in a case of severe self-injurious behaviour in a girl with Cornelia de Lange syndrome, after failing to elicit a response to conventional management for 10 years. Improvement was dramatic and the possible mechanisms are discussed.