У статті обґрунтовано сучасні підходи до фізичної реабілітації дітей 12-14 років з дитячим церебральним
паралічем у резидуальному періоді.
The article addresses the problem of infantile cerebral paralysis, which has been in the spotlight of researchers all over the
world for a long time. For more than a century of scientific researches there was accumulated an enormous amount of data
regarding etiology and pathogenesis of this disease, classifications of disorders were worked out, various methods of rehabilitation
treatment and pedagogical correction were developed. However, high incidence and permanent growth indicators of infantile
cerebral paralysis, as well as severity of organic lesions, and their functional manifestations, inherent for this disease, requires
permanent improvement of existing measures, and searching for the new preventive measures for inception of cerebral pathology,
and effective correction of its consequences.
Physical rehabilitation and adaptation of people with development defects, and especially patients with infantile cerebral
paralysis, is the issue of the day, which contains many aspects. But it is important that in spite of all difficulties which arise in the
process of rehabilitation of such patients, it enables them not only to feel better physically, but also improve their emotional and
psychological state, as well as actively integrate in society.
Today only few people with a disease of infantile cerebral paralysis understand the importance, and know the benefits of
application of tools of physical rehabilitation: massage, remedial gymnastics, hydrokinesitherapy, physiotherapy and hippotherapy.
These methods enable to eliminate functional disorders, pathologic movements, as well as to achieve maximum compensation for
defects, when a child will stop to depend on adults and will be able to live on his/her own without assistance.
The purpose of the research responds to the fact that work practice with children with infantile cerebral paralysis requires
argumentation for usage of methods of physical rehabilitation, directed to correction of disordered functions, mental retardation of
such children, caused by the early organic affection of cerebrum, which slows down and damages its postnatal forming, and different
sensory (pathology of sight, acusis, kinetic perception), and linguistic defects. Systematic application of physical exercises makes an
organism better adapt to the gradually growing loading, and helps to correct the disorders caused by illness. A physical rehabilitation
aims to liquidate disabilities and has a positive effect on social adaptation of children with infernal cerebral paralysis.
