[Psychological problems in children living with parents suffering from traumatic lesions of the vertebral column (author's transl)].

After trauma of the vertebral column and the neuromuscular consequences in one of the parents, children must experience many changes in the life of the family. They tend to react by psychosomatical symptoms as f.i. Anorexy, Colitis mucosa, Enuresis nocturna, Emesis a.s.o. Child guidance in such a case is urgently needed, as the author shows in two case reports.