Effects of Functional Physical Therapy on Motor Abilities of Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
The motive of the current study was to discern whether the motor abilities of children with spastic cerebral palsy who acquired injuries and strokes during peri-natal period of birth and post-natal (up to 3 months after birth) were receiving functional physical therapy revamped more than the motor abilities of those children who were receiving physical therapy based on the proposition of improving the quality of movement in reference group. The subjects taken from four special education schools of Faisalabad city were sixteen children (nine boys, seven girls) with spastic/pyramidal cerebral palsy from which seven were diagnosed with mild pyramidal diparesis, five with moderate pyramidal hemiparesis four with moderate pyramidal pentaparesis. Participants of both the groups met therapy per week thricely for 50 minutes. Stratified sampling technique was used to allocate the children into two groups. Basic gross motor abilities such as lying & rolling (item 2 & 6), sitting (item 23 & 24), crawling & kneeling (item 43 & 46), standing (item 63 & 64) and walking, running and jumping (item 78 & 79) were measured by using Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66). There were three follow-up assessments: 2, 4 and 6 months after the pre-test conducting by the therapists. Both the groups improved after receiving treatment but efficacy of the functional physical therapy (with an emphasis on practicing functional activities) applied to children in experimental group was found more advantageous than physical therapy (with an emphasis on the principle of normalization of the quality of movement by soft tissue massage for joint mobilization or by posture re-education) applied to children in reference group.
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Hina Hadayat Ali, Rizwan Munir, Muhammad Naeem Mohsin
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