Lemonia, K. (Koskinidou) (2015) Exploring the Practice Conditions of Physical Therapy Sessions of Children with DCD: An Observational Study. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
Aim: The effective organization of physical therapy sessions requires specific skills by therapists, such as their familiarization with the current motor learning literature and their ability to apply motor teaching principles. The aim of this project is to update the Motor Teaching Principles Taxonomy (MTPT), which can be used as an instrument for evaluating the extent to which therapists apply motor teaching principles. In particular, it focuses on investigating the practice conditions that are most frequently applied in physical therapy sessions for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). Method: The development of the updated MTPT was based on reviewing the motor learning literature. In order to check whether the proposed taxonomy is valid for use in clinical practice, an observational study on physical therapies sessions, has been conducted. The study took place in three rehabilitation centers in Netherlands, and in total evaluated 13 physical therapy sessions. Results: The updated taxonomy consists of 11items that describe practice organization conditions. The validation suggested that all items were applied in the examined physical therapy sessions. The results of the study, based on the frequency and duration of the motor teaching principles application, suggest that therapists tend to extensively communicate with children and change movement parameters. Moreover, it is suggested that younger therapists, with less experience, tend to use those principles more than more experienced therapists. Conclusion: The updated MTPT can be used by physical therapists as a self-reflection tool that will help them to be more aware regarding the way they organize sessions. Furthermore, it could help researchers to get insight into the mostly applied physical therapy practices, and in the way they are performed. Keywords: Motor teaching; Developmental Coordination Disorder; Observational study
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Schoemaker, M.M. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2022 09:31 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2022 09:31 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3094 |
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