| （1.Shanghai Municipal Hospital of TCM，Affiliated to Shanghai TCM University，Shanghai 200071，China；2.Department of Education，East China Normal University，Shanghai 200062，China；3.Faculty of Medical Sciences，University of Groningen，Groningen 9700 AB，Netherlands；4.Periodical Press，Wuhan Sports University，Wuhan 430079，China；5.School of Haiyan Clinical Medicine，Zhejiang Pharmacevtical College，Haiyan 314300，China；6.Basic Medical，Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine，Shanghai 201203，China) Abstract: In order to further guide and optimize clinical operating therapy plans, and to probe into the effects of re-habilitation of children with development disabilities from their sensory integration disorder symptoms after they are intervened by sensory integration training via a sports game mode, the authors carried out 4-week sensory inte-gration training based mainly on sports game therapy on 23 children with different development disabilities, 5 days a week (Monday through Friday), 60 minutes a day. The training contents include tactile sense training, vestibular balance sense training and proprioceptive sense training. Before and after the therapy and 4 weeks after the therapy (i.e. at the end of week 8), the authors scored the children by using Simplified Children Sensory Processing Ability Analysis Form, Conner’s Evaluation Form Used by Teachers and DeGangi-Berk Sensory Integration Measurement Tool, and revealed the following findings: 1) after sports game training, various sensory integration abilities of the children with development disabilities were all improved, and there were significant differences (P<0.05); 2) the training had a long-term effect: there were still significant differences (P<0.05) in the tested children’s ability scores measured in a follow-up visit, as compared with those measured before the therapy; 3) after the training, there were significant differences (P<0.05) in the degree of improvement of sensory integration ability between the groups of children of different ages, the magnitudes of improvement ranging from big to small were the aged 4~7 group, the aged 8~11 group and the aged 12~15 group; 4) although the total scores measured by Simplified Children Sensory Processing Ability Analysis Form and DeGangi-Berk Sensory Integration Measurement Tool in a follow-up visit were significantly different (P<0.05) as compared with those measured right after the training was completed, the differences in the scores for various factors in the three measurement forms were all statistically insignificant (P>0.05). During the experiment, all the tested children had no adverse reaction, which means that the social valid-ity is good. The said findings indicate that sports game type sensory integration training has significant near-term and long-term effects on the clinical rehabilitation of children with development disabilities, and the younger the children are, the better the therapy effect will be.
Key words: sports medicine；sports game；sensory integration training；operating therapy；children with developmental disabilities |
