The main symptoms of brain tumors in premature babies include increased muscle tone, difficulty with abduction, and in severe cases, muscle stiffness, spasms, and joints maintaining a flexed posture. These are often accompanied by sensory, cognitive, communication, and behavioral impairments and seizure attacks. Based on the clinical classification of brain tumor patients, targeted recovery training is conducted, including gross motor skills, fine motor skills, balance, and coordination training. Physical rehabilitation treatment includes massage and manipulation, which has the effects of correcting posture, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, and adjusting Qi and blood to improve internal organ function. There are various methods such as pushing, moving, pressing, massaging, pinching, rubbing, combing, wiping, pinching, shaking, and shaping. These must be applied according to the child’s age, condition, and symptoms. The effectiveness is positively correlated with the skillfulness of the techniques.
Neonatal brain tumors can be caused by various factors, such as infections, hemorrhages, and trauma. Severe cases may be accompanied by intellectual disability, epilepsy, limb spasms, and impairments in visual, auditory, and language functions.
Factors such as parental smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse, and mental illness in pregnant mothers, as well as diabetes or hypertension during pregnancy, may lead to brain tumors in infants, including premature birth and intracranial infections.