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Background: One of the most severe blood coagulation disorders is Hemophilia. As a result of the bleeding episodes, immobilization and diminish physical activities hemophilic patients face serious problems as loss of muscle mass, decreased strength, balance problems and proprioception loss. The treadmill exercise is one of the most effective and available tool to achieve improving mobility skills in those children during walking. The aiming of this study to investigate the effect of treadmill exercises on mobility skills in hemophilic children.Methodolgy: Thirty hemophilic children ranging in age from seven to eleven years were assigned randomly into two groups of equal number (control and study groups). Control group received selective physical therapy program aiming to facilitate balance, while study group received the same exercises as the control group in addition to treadmill exercise. Dynamic Posturography was used to evaluate mobility skills parameters as Step length, Step Width, Speed, Turn time and Turn Sway of all children in both groups before and after three successive months of treatment. Results:The results revealed significant differences of all measured variables of mobility skills in two groups after three successive months of treatment, also revealed significant difference when compared the two groups after treatment in favor of the study group. Conclusion:The using treadmill exercise can be added to the physical therapy program aiming to improve mobility skills in hemophilic children during walking.

Background/Aims The loss of mobility and functional activities of the upper limb are the main longstanding complications of obstetric brachial plexus injury. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the augmented biofeedback system in conjunction with traditional physical therapy on the range of motion and functional activities in children with obstetric brachial plexus injury. Methods A total of 45 children aged from 6 to 10 years with obstetric brachial plexus injury were assigned into two groups. The control group received a traditional physical therapy programme, and the study group received the same programme with augmented biofeedback for 6 weeks. The main outcome parameters were the upper limb active range of motion, Mallet scale and Active Movement scale. Results The children in the study group showed greater significant improvement in all measured parameters compared with those in the control group. Conclusions Adding augmented biofeedback to the physical therapy programme provided greater improvement in upper limb mobility and functional activities for children with obstetric brachial plexus injury children.

Background Fine motor skills in form of grasping and visual motor integration are essential to social and emotional adaptation in preschool age, it may different in age and gender which affect the performance of the child in school. Methods Three hundred children aged three to six years old were recruited at public and private preschools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 150 boys and 150 girls were divided into three groups each by age: (1) three to four years, (2) four to five years and (3) five to six years. Fine motor skills were assessed one time using the grasping and visual-motor integration subtests of the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, Second Edition (PDMS-2). The raw scores and age equivalences of the subtests were evaluated. Results There were no significant gender differences in the mean raw scores or age equivalence results on either set of subtests. The youngest group had significantly lower mean visual-motor integration, grasping and age equivalence scores than either of the other age groups (separately for boys and girls). Conclusion In a sample of Saudi preschool children, there were no significant gender differences in grasping or visual-motor integration fine motor skills, and age differences seemed to be developmentally appropriate

Aims: The aim of the study is to investigate if the new method of auditory and visual biofeedback as Upper Limb Exercise may improve praxis skills alone without any traditional physical therapy treatment or not and within three successive months of treatment in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. Methods: A 6-year-old hemiplegic cerebral palsied child was treated with Upper-Limb Exerciser as one of augmented visual and auditory feedback devices. Sensory Integration and Praxis test was used to measure a child's ability to integrate sensory input for perception, motor planning, and spatial actions in;