The Effect Of Functional Training On Wrist Velocity And Eye- Hand Coordination’s Subtest Of Bruninks Osertsky Test In An 8-Year-Old Boy With Down Syndrome

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of functional training on the velocity of the wrist to reaching objects with different shapes (cylinder, cube, pyramid) and sizes (small, medium, large) and eye-hand coordination’s subtest of Bruninks Osertsky test in an 8-year-old boy with Down Syndrome. The present study is an experimental study following a single subject design. One subject with Down syndrome who was not suffering from any severe physical or motor disorder was introduced by the Down Syndrome Association (Gender: male; Age: 8 years old) to participate in the study. The pretest and posttest of reaching to objects with different shapes and sizes were recorded using motion analysis device and eye-hand coordination’s subtest of Bruninks Osertsky test was performed. The subject participated in 24 sessions of the functional training program, each lasted about 60 minutes (5 days a week). Each session of training consisted of three part of 15 minutes and between them was a 5-minute break. The result revealed that the mean of the velocity of the wrist to reaching the medium cylinder was higher than the others (V=596.83) and the effect size was higher than the others (E=0.94). The mean of the velocity of the wrist in posttest showed that the subject had better performance than pretest. Also, the number, time, and velocity of implementation of nine sub-tests of eye-hand coordination in post-test were increased compared to pre-test.