Citation

dos Santos SL, Soares MJ, Ravagni E, Costa MM, Fernandes MD. Rev. Bras. Enferm. 2014; 67(4): 617-622.

Vernacular Title

Desempenho da marcha de idosos praticantes de psicomotricidade.

Affiliation

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Associacao Brasilerira de Enfermagem)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

25271588

Abstract

Quasi-experimental study conducted with fifteen elderlies, developed at the Physiotherapy Clinical School, Federal University of Paraíba, in 2011. The study aimed to evaluate the performance of gait in elderly practitioners of psychomotor activities. It was conducted a structured interview focusing on social, clinical and functional data, in order to be able to correlate various information which supported the aim of the study. The average cognitive performance was 19.4 at the first assessment and 23.2 in the second. The average performance of activities related to the gait was 11.6 at the first assessment, and 15.5 in the second, after the practice of psychomotor activities. It was found a significant improvement in the performance of activities related to the gait, with irregularities persisting in height and continuity of the step, as well as in the midline deviation.

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