Abstract
The purposes of this study were to examine the effectiveness of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) techniques and to compare the effectiveness of PNF versus traditional therapeutic exercise on postural control in the quadruped position on children with spastic cerebral palsy. A total of 19 children with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy were included in this study. Ten were males and nine were females. Their age ranged from 1.4 to 10.6 years, with a mean of 4.6 years. Ten children had a diagnosis of spastic diplegia. The other nine children had a diagnosis of spastic quadriplegia. The authors used a single subject A-B research design to conduct this study. Each child served as his/her own control, receiving PNF treatment in part A and therapeutic exercise in part B, which was a part of their continuing physical therapy. A pretest and a posttest were conducted in each part. Each part lasted four weeks. The children showed improvement in postural control in the quadruped position by raising the right shoulder higher after receiving PNF treatment. They also showed similar improvement in left shoulder after receiving traditional therapeutic exercise. The researcher did not find any significant differences between the PNF treatment and therapeutic exercise on these children's postural control in quadruped.
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