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Physical activity as a prescription for the children with cerebral palsy

After so many years devoted to practicing medicine as children physiotherapists, the therapists finally found the importance of balance training exercises in children who suffer from cerebral palsy. It is only through controlling balance that we can achieve improvement in body movement and position...

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Main Authors: Shariat, Arghavan, Shariat, Ardalan, Ahmad Abedi,, Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri
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Language:English
Published: Science and Innovation 2014
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spelling my.upm.eprints.349132016-01-27T03:13:58Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34913/ Physical activity as a prescription for the children with cerebral palsy Shariat, Arghavan Shariat, Ardalan Ahmad Abedi, Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri After so many years devoted to practicing medicine as children physiotherapists, the therapists finally found the importance of balance training exercises in children who suffer from cerebral palsy. It is only through controlling balance that we can achieve improvement in body movement and position that will culminate into performance independence in a child. Formerly, working over controlling balance in cerebral palsy children has been very difficult, because contracture and spasticity did not let us to have an effective balance training exercise. In this respect, we have summarized the results of previous authors that specify the level of effectiveness of exercise therapy. The results of different studies showed that level of effectiveness of exercise therapy on alleviating the symptoms of spastic cerebral palsy is average in accordance with Cohen's effect size Interpretation table. Science and Innovation 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34913/1/Physical%20activity%20as%20a%20prescription%20for%20the%20children%20with%20cerebral%20palsy.pdf Shariat, Arghavan and Shariat, Ardalan and Ahmad Abedi, and Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri (2014) Physical activity as a prescription for the children with cerebral palsy. Russian Open Medical Journal, 3 (1). art. no. 0108. pp. 1-4. ISSN 2304-3415 http://www.romj.org/2014-0108
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description After so many years devoted to practicing medicine as children physiotherapists, the therapists finally found the importance of balance training exercises in children who suffer from cerebral palsy. It is only through controlling balance that we can achieve improvement in body movement and position that will culminate into performance independence in a child. Formerly, working over controlling balance in cerebral palsy children has been very difficult, because contracture and spasticity did not let us to have an effective balance training exercise. In this respect, we have summarized the results of previous authors that specify the level of effectiveness of exercise therapy. The results of different studies showed that level of effectiveness of exercise therapy on alleviating the symptoms of spastic cerebral palsy is average in accordance with Cohen's effect size Interpretation table.
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author Shariat, Arghavan
Shariat, Ardalan
Ahmad Abedi,
Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri
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Shariat, Ardalan
Ahmad Abedi,
Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri
Physical activity as a prescription for the children with cerebral palsy
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Ahmad Abedi,
Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri
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title Physical activity as a prescription for the children with cerebral palsy
title_short Physical activity as a prescription for the children with cerebral palsy
title_full Physical activity as a prescription for the children with cerebral palsy
title_fullStr Physical activity as a prescription for the children with cerebral palsy
title_full_unstemmed Physical activity as a prescription for the children with cerebral palsy
title_sort physical activity as a prescription for the children with cerebral palsy
publisher Science and Innovation
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url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34913/1/Physical%20activity%20as%20a%20prescription%20for%20the%20children%20with%20cerebral%20palsy.pdf
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