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- Title
Desempenho cognitivo e funcional de crianças com paralisia cerebral submetidas a prática de atividades físicas aquáticas.
- Authors
Aidar, Felipe J.; Carneiro, André; de Matos, Dihogo Gama; Garrido, Nuno Domingos; Matos dos Santos, Marcelo Danillo; Aidar, Liliana Zandona; de Souza, Raphael Fabrício; Machado Reis, Victor
- Abstract
The Cerebral Palsy (PC) cases, have increased in the last decades in all the world. In Brazil if esteem that exists about 30.000 the 40.000 new cases to each year. The CP affects the central nervous system, being that the disability allied predominantly to the sensory motor part, with riots of muscular tonus, position and involuntary movement. The objective was to evaluate the area of the social function in cerebral palsy carriers submit to one program of aquatic physical activities, adopting itself Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory - PEDI, and manual abilities. Carrying 21 children with Cerebral Palsy had been followed, in spastic and athetoid predominant manifestations, with age varying of six years and three months the twelve years and seven months. The evaluation of the social function, in that if it relates to the assistance of the adult and its improvement before and after the practical one of aquatic physical exercises was used for the evaluation the "Pediatric Evaluation Disability Inventory - PEDI", in the part of social function was used and manual abilities scale. It had significant improvements in the social part of the social function in the pupils who had been submitted the aquatic physical activities. The results found in the study, infer trends in the direction of that the practical one of aquatic physical exercises demonstrates indications of contribution in the motor improvement, with consequent improvement in the social function, bringing a bigger independence for the carrying child of Cerebral Palsy.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; AQUATIC exercises; CEREBRAL palsy; CHILDREN'S health; SOCIAL skills; FUNCTIONAL assessment
- Publication
Motricidade, 2016, Vol 12, Issue S2, p54
- ISSN
1646-107X
- Publication type
Article