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Physical education disabled people after stroke injury enrolled in dance movement education activity
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Skurvydas, Albertas | Lietuvos sporto universitetas | LT |
Sapežinskienė, Laima | Kauno medicinos universitetas | LT |
| Date Issued | Start Page | End Page |
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2008-10-16 | 121 | 121 |
The aim of the work: to examine the possibilities of the disabled people’s physical education using dance movement in their rehabilitation. Study objectives were to analyze theoretical and practical possibilities of disabled people’s physical education using dance movement and to determine the impact of dance movement on physical, emotional and social state of the disabled. Method and organization. In order to achieve the aim, the methods of scientific methodological literature analysis, testing of dance impact on independence and balance (using Barthel index and Tinetti scale), as well as data and mathematical statistical analysis were chosen. The study was organized into two stages. During the first stage (from June 2006 to June 2007), the questionnaire survey was conducted in non-hospital environment in various towns of Lithuania; in the second stage (from 24 September to 1 January 2008), testing and data analysis was performed in Palanga Rehabilitation Hospital and in the Department of Neurorehabilitation in Rehabilitation Clinic of Kaunas University of Medicine. Results and discussion. In total, 434 respondents participated in the study, 350 of them had disability. It was determined that the participation of disabled people with spinal cord injury dependent on a wheelchair in experimental program of dance movement had impact on their physical state. Testing results revealed that dance movements: 1) increase the disabled independence from other people in every day life, since their independence increased by 56 per cent in group E and by 48 per cent in group K; 2) positively affect the balance of the disabled (it improved from 32.5 to 85.0 per cent in group E, and from 0 to 27.5 per cent in group K); more effectively and strongly influences the physical state of the disabled whose primary rates of balance (relation of medium intensity, ρ=–514, when p<0.001) and independence (relation of medium intensity, ρ=–0.623, when p<0.001) were worse at