[Kinesiologic assessment of motor development dynamic in premature children until the expected term of delivery].

Abstract

Background: Kinesiologic assessment is included in the neurological examination and the kinesiologic findings may be used as a valuable criterion in assessment of the motor development dynamics.

Methods: The experimental group consisted of twenty-one preterm children (11 boys and 10 girls) born between 28th and 36th week of gestational age. All children were examined every two weeks till the expected term of delivery. Examinations included neurological-kinesiological assessment based on selected parameters of spontaneous or forced movement, muscle tonus, primitive reflexology and postural reactivity and screening scores according to Touwen and Salokorpi.

Results: When comparing the results obtained in the examined sample of children, using examination records and screening scores according to Touwen and Salokorpi, the neurological-kinesiological appeared as the best to be applied to the clinical practice. The criteria of rehabilitation applied, proved to be very effective.

Conclusions: Despite the diagnosis based on the kinesiological assessment cannot be determined, further precision of the specific features of the kinesiological picture in these children, as a parameter of the motor development dynamics, is needed, as it will allow for subsequent evaluation of the therapy applied.