The Range of Physical Rehabilitation Methods in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Abstract

Aim: To analyze the modern national and foreign literature on up to date methods of physical rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy. Materials and Methods: The study used bibliosemantic analysis of physical rehabilitation methods in children with cerebral palsy in ScienceDirect, PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science electronic databases. Inclusion criteria: (1) physical rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy, (2) methods of physical rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy. If the expected criterion was found, the full text was reviewed. Conclusions: The bibliosemantic review of literature sources indicated that a large set of new methods are used in the physical rehabilitation of children with CP. In general, a larger percentage of authors indicated the effectiveness of the methods of therapeutic physical exercising, rehabilitation massage, dosed proprioceptive correction, sensory inegration, Vojta-Therapy, kinesiotherapy and kinesiotaping in the physical rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy.