Avaliação do equilíbrio estático de crianças e adolescentes com síndrome de down

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Meneghetti, Cristiane Helita Zorel
• Orientador(a): Assis, Silvana Maria Blascovi de
• Banca de defesa: Deloroso, Frederico Tadeu , Rodrigues, Graciele Massoli
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Distúrbios do Desenvolvimento
• Departamento: Psicologia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: síndrome de down; avaliação; equilíbrio estático; biofotogrametria
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: down syndrome; evaluation; static balance; computerized biophotogrammetry
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::FUNDAMENTOS DA EDUCACAO::PSICOLOGIA EDUCACIONAL
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/22609

The aim of this study was to evaluate the static balance in children and adolescents with Down Syndrome, and verify visual influence in the static balance. The study sample consisted of 11 children and adolescents with Down Syndrome and 14 healthy children and adolescents, in the control group. During the vídeo takes all the subjects were instructed to stay in the orthostatic position with the arms along the body and feet parallel in a flat surface, looking at a target set at the eyes height on the wall in front os them. Children of both groups were filmed in anterior view (frontal view) and right side view (sagittal view) in these two conditions: with and without vision. During the video takes with the eyes closed, it was used a swimming goggle completely sealed,with the purpose of not allowing the subject to have any visual information. The instument used was the Computerized Biophotogrammetry which served as angular reference to verify the body oscillations in the static balance. The results of this study showed that children and adolescents with Down Syndrome oscillate more than the control group and when the visual information is manipulated both anteroposterior and side-to-side oscillations showed strong evidences (p<0,01) of the presence of differences between children with Down Syndrome and the children in the control group.