CHRONIC
DISEASE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
REABILITY
OF METHODS OF
EVALUATION OF BALANCE IN CHILDREN WITH PALSY
Iatridou Georgia,
Iakovidis Paris, Porfiriadou Anthi
T.E.I.
Thessaloniki, Department of Physiotherapy, Greece
The evaluation of balance in
children with cerebral palsy (CP) it is an extremely difficult and
complex procedure. It is even more difficult the evaluation of the
results of some therapeutical intervetion to this kind of patients.
Varied methods of balance evaluation are mentioned to the international
bibliography, but almost none has not clinical utility and application
in children with CP. The purpose of the present study was the
application of three methods of evaluation of balance (BBS, TUG and
BOTMP) in children with CP, as also their evaluation with regard to
reliability.
METHODOLOGY. The control of
reliability of the tests was based on the successive application to
twenty children with CP within the short period of one day and one week
in order to substantiate their ability to give the same results in a
stable sample (test-retest reliability). The statistical analysis was
based upon the analysis variance in relation with two factors (two-way
ANOVA), so as to establish if there is an important statistic
differentiation to the performances of children in the each test, as
well as the analysis variance in repeated measures (ANOVA repeated
measures) for the control of the influence of each type of CP to the
average of performances in each test.
RESULTS. No important
statistic difference was found out in relation with the performance
between the measures but important statistical differences were found
of the performances of the children in all the three tests considering
the type of their CP.
Conclusions: The tests BBS, TUG and
BOTMP are considered to be reliable and valid tests, able to
objectively define the quantitative mutation of the balance of the
child in test with CP
KEY WORDS: balance, cerebral palsy,
evaluation.
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