EVALUATION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF REHABILITATION MATHODTS FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND LOCOMOTOR DISORDERS (REVIEW ARTICLE)

Abstract

This review article aims at analyzing the modern medical literature on evaluating the effectiveness of current methods of rehabilitation care for children with disabilities and locomotor disabilities. According to the latest reports, in the structure and causes of children disability for 2011-2015, diseases of the nervous system (17.0% -18.9%) rank the second position. Cerebral palsy is a serious disease leading to disability. Current social and economic situation in Ukraine necessitates the strengthening of social protection of children with disabilities, the definition of priority areas in this field of care, and put the early social rehabilitation of children with disabilities among the social and medical priorities. Along with impacted psychophysical development, children can experience social maladaptation, lack of social contacts, low sociometric status that negatively impacts their mental development, the emotional and volitional spheres. Therefore, it is important to introduce wide-scale socio-psychological rehabilitation among this category of children in order to restore lost socio-psychic functions. The main goal of rehabilitation care is to improve the quality of life of patients and to promote their maximum social adaptation. For further development and improvement of the rehabilitation system, various scientific studies are being carried out. One of the important directions in this domain is the evaluation of the effectiveness of rehabilitation measures. The study of methods for evaluating complex rehabilitation programs is a promising direction for the implementation of approaches in organizing an in-depth investigation of this problem. The evaluation of the effectiveness of socio-psychological, psychological-pedagogical, physical rehabilitation care for children with disabilities, cerebral palsy and other central nervous system disorders and locomotive disorders should be carried out by multidisciplinary teams. Despite the significant number of existing methods for assessing the effectiveness of rehabilitation care, there are currently no highly effective and specific methods, and the main disadvantages of existing methods, according to the studied literature sources, are low specificity and laboriousness. Summarizing all of the above, it is important to evaluate the results of literature data in order to identify trends associated with modern methods for assessing rehabilitation measures for children with disabilities.