Physical rehabilitation as a component of the integral educative attention by itinerant way for students with motor handicap

Abstract

Introduction: integral educative attention by itinerant way for motor handicapped students includes aspects from physical rehabilitation which complement all treatments they receive at medical centers.
Objective: to characterize the acting motor and some of their implications in the school and social acting after having implemented a rehabilitation strategy from the Physical Education by itinerant way.
Method and material: a descriptive study was made about main problems in motor performance of motor handicapped students who live in Pinar del Rio, Consolación del Sur and Los Palacios municipalities and receive educative attention by itinerant way. The study was made among September, 2015 – July, 2016 and on it were included 16 students with moderate and severe handicap. Psychomotor content, posture, presence of deformity and contractures, substitution skills and the use of supports were explored. An observation was also made while doing the modified motor function scale, Ozeretsky motoric test and qualitative analysis test.
Results: under the initial view of the students involved, we established that 15 of them showed a low level in psychomotor contents, 9 of them had posture problems, 6 showed deformity and contractures and 8 had problems to walk. In the final evaluation the 100 % showed positive changes in all indicators.
Conclusions: running with the strategy brought significant changes about the motor development in students, contributing to improve their quality of life.