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[Judo -- a contribution to rehabilitation (author's transl)]
Insights
Judo training improved motor, psychological, and perceptual skills in children with cerebral motor disturbances. This martial art offers potential benefits for rehabilitation programs.
Area of Science:
- Pediatrics
- Sports Medicine
- Developmental Pediatrics
Context:
- Children aged 9-15 with cerebral motor disturbances and related functional issues.
- Treatment at a center for developmental diagnostics and pediatrics.
- Inclusion of perceptual, language, and behavioral disturbances.
Purpose:
- To evaluate the impact of a judo training program on children with minimal brain dysfunction.
- To assess improvements in motor, psychological, and perceptual functions.
- To explore judo's potential role in rehabilitation.
Summary:
- A judo group was established for 20 children (9-15 years) with cerebral motor disturbances.
- The program emphasized functional judo exercises, accommodating individual needs.
- After 15 months, significant improvements were noted in motor, psychological, and perceptual domains.
Impact:
- Judo training demonstrated positive outcomes for children with developmental disorders.
- The findings suggest judo as a viable complementary therapy in rehabilitation.
- Highlights the therapeutic potential of adapted martial arts for pediatric developmental conditions.
Abstract:
A judo group was formed at the Wolfsburg sports club with twenty 9 to 15 years old children who received treatment at the centre for developmental diagnostics and pediatrics. The children suffered primarily from more or less pronounced cerebral motor disturbances. Other functional disturbances such as perceptual disorders, language and reactive behavioural disturbances completed the picture of minimal brain-damage. The training programme attributed more importance to functional judo exercises than to perfect judo techniques. Allowances were made for individual difficulties. After 15 months of training improvements were observed in the motor, psychological and perceptual fields. This is why the authors believe it is worthwile to consider judo also in connection with rehabilitation.