Úprava chybného držania tela detí mladšieho školského veku prostriedkami kinezioterapie
The Repair of a Bad Body Posture of Younger Aged Children by Means of Kinesiotherapy

Summary/Abstract: Objectives: To find out the current status of the posture of the selected sample of children, to apply a three-month kinesiotherapeutic programme and to assess the impact of the chosen means of kinezioterapie on the posture of children. As the targets we have identified: to measure the basic height and weight parameters, to investigate the shortened and weakened muscles and to assess the incidence of children´s scoliosis. Material and methods: The method of our research was a quantitative field study. The research sample consisted of eighteen pupils of which ten were boys and eight were girls of the third class in the primary school in Demjata. The average age of children was 9 years. Our program was implemented once a week during the hours of physical education within duration of 45 minutes. During an initial diagnosis, we measured the anthropometric parameters (height and weight), then from survey data we have calculated the BMI (body mass index). Next, we used the orientation test of shortened and weakened muscles according to Janda (Janíková 1998), we evaluated the posture according to Klein, Thomas and Mayer and we also did Matthias test. For the examination of the incidence of scoliosis we used the scoliometer. Results: The positive result of the measurement somatometric values is that even one child from our research sample is not overweight according to the percentile chart of the public health Authority of the Slovak republic (2004). The most shortened muscle was trapezius. The most weakened were abdominal muscles. When evaluating posture according to Klein, Thomas and Mayera, all children are in the group of good, nearly perfect posture. The incidence of scoliosis has not been detected in any of the tested children. Conclusion: The results of the survey confirm the improvement of the posture in the studied probands after the completion of the three-month kinesiotherapeutic programme.

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