Effect of holiday on postural tone and selected parameters of body posture in young people with Down syndrome

• Authors: I. Doroniewicz , M. Matyja , J. Durmała , J. Pastuszak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Background: Regular physical therapy of people with Down syndrome improves the efficiency of such treatment. However, it remains unclear whether a discontinuation of the therapy over the period of summer holiday influences the effects of the therapeutic process. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of summer holiday on postural tone and quantitative parameters of body posture (angle of trunk rotation in the transverse plane and the spinal curvatures such as kyphosis or lordosis in the sagittal plane) in young people with Down syndrome.Material/Methods: Twenty one people aged 14 to 24 years were examined, with IQ scores from 54 to 35 on the Wechsler Intelligence scale. The experimental group was young people with Down syndrome whereas the control group were people with moderate intellectual disability without additional neurological, orthopaedic and other genetic disorders. The postural tone coefficient (PTC) and values of the spinal curvature (lordosis and kyphosis) and angle of trunk rotation (ATR) were evaluated twice. The first measurement was performed after 10 months of regular neurorehabilitation according to the neurodevelopment concept while the second - after 2 months of summer holiday.Results: During the holiday, the PTC value reduced significantly in the controls, from 0.40 to 0.37 (p=0.02), whereas in young people with Down syndrome, postural tone did not change significantly (p=0.33). In terms of the parameters of body posture, one significant change was observed in the group of patients with Down syndrome (kyphosis, p=0.00).Conclusions: No significant correlations were found between postural tone and values of kyphosis, lordosis and angle of trunk rotation, except for the relationship between PTC and angle of trunk rotation obtained in the main thoracic measurement (Th5- Th12, p=0.03).

Keywords

EN

intellectual disability; postural tone; angle of trunk rotation; kyphosis; lordosis

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Physiotherapy and Health Activity
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45-53

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2015

received

10 - 5 - 2015

accepted

11 - 10 - 2015

online

30 - 12 - 2015

Contributors

author

I. Doroniewicz

• Department of Rehabilitation, School of Health Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, 40-635, Ziołowa 45/47 Katowice, Poland
• Department of Kinesiotherapy and Special Methods in Physiotherapy, The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education

author

M. Matyja

• Department of Physiotherapy of Nervous and Locomotor Systems, Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, Poland

author

J. Durmała

• School of Health Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Department of Rehabilitation

author

J. Pastuszak

• Department of Kinesiotherapy and Special Methods in Physiotherapy, The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/pha-2015-0014