Eficácia do treino de marcha na esteira em crianças com paralisia cerebral: uma revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

Introduction: Cerebral palsy (CP) is currently defined as a group of permanent, non-progressive disorders that affect the development of movement and posture, causing musculoskeletal changes and limitations in activity and participation. These motor disorders are common in this health condition and lead to functional limitations in individuals with CP, especially in the ability to move and gait speed. Thus, improving gait speed is one of the main therapeutic goals of treatment in children with CP. Objective: The present study aimed to carry out a literature review regarding the effects of treadmill gait training on gait speed in children with cerebral palsy. Method: A literature search was performed in the following databases: PEDro, Scielo, MEDLINE via PubMed and Lilacs, with the term gai/marcht (gait) associated with cerebral palsy (PC), childrem (children) and its crossing with walking speed, treadmill march, from April to June 2022. Clinical trials, randomized clinical trials, meta-analysis and systematic review were selected from the last 15 years, which performed gait training in treadmill in children with pc. Subsequently, the selected studies were critically analyzed. Results: The bibliographic search resulted in a total of 74 citations on the topic. After removing duplicates, screening the abstracts and evaluating the full text, 09 articles were selected with the appropriate characteristics to be included and analyzed in this study. Conclusion: The findings suggested that treadmill gait training in CP is effective for gait speed, and may be an important intervention strategy to be used in this population, most studies have shown that there was also a significant improvement in cadence, resistance and scores outcomes. on GMFM