Blood flow in the brain venous blood vessels of children with cerebral palsy while using Bobath therapy

Abstract

In the diagnosis of the causes of neurological disorders in children’s with cerebral palsy has attached the results of Transcranial Doppler. Bobath therapy is the most innovative and effective methods of physical rehabilitation. For the determination of brain blood flow of children of preschool age with various CNS lesions for the influence of the physical therapy using the Bobath’s method, 35 children aged 4.1 ± 1.1 years were examined. That was the main group (MG). All of 72 procedures were conducted. There was also a control group (CG), the results of the brain blood flow had been studied and analyzed in 34 children aged 3.8 ± 0.9 years who were undergoing rehabilitation using standard methods. Traditional methods of physical therapy and the methods of the Bobath therapy have a significant effect on the brain venous blood flow. At the same time, the significance of individual methods of physical therapy is not convincing. The comparison of changes in blood flow using the Bobath therapy and traditional methods allowed identifying certain differences. The influence of the Bobath methods, on the first place, concerns the more optimal effect on the blood flow in the veins of the spine and the direct venous sinus. At the same time, changes in blood flow with traditional approaches are more convincing to the effect on blood flow in the internal jugular veins and veins of Rosenthal.