فعالية برنامج تأهيلي لتحسين المتغيرات البدنية و الفسيولوجية و القوامية لانحراف سقوط الرأس أماما التعويضي للحدب الفقري الصدري للمعاقين بصريا

Abstract EN

The purpose of the study was to identify effectiveness of a rehabilitation program to improve physical, physiological and postural variables for forward head drop deviation compensatory to kyphosis of the thoracic spine for visually impaired.

the researcher used experimental method using the pre, inter and post measurement for one experimental group on a sample selected purposively of the visually impaired with forward head drop deviation compensatory to kyphosis of the thoracic spine from al Noor school for the blind in Qalyubia governorate, which consisted of (11) visually impaired with a percentage of 36.7% of the research community by (8) visually impaired who are the basic sample of the research and three visually impaired who are the members of the survey sample of the research.

the research results have shown that the positive effect of the rehabilitation program has led to an improvement in the physical variables associated with forward head drop deviation compensatory to kyphosis of the thoracic spine for visually impaired such as (strength, range of motion) of the neck and trunk and an improvement in the physiological variables associated with forward head drop deviation compensatory to kyphosis of the thoracic spine for visually impaired such as respiratory variables such as (inspiratory vital capacity, forced vital capacity ,...,etc.

) and circulatory system variables such as (blood pressure, pulse) at rest.

in addition to improvement in the postural variables associated with forward head drop deviation compensatory to kyphosis of the thoracic spine for visually impaired such as (forward head drop angle, thoracic region angle when performing different movements using spinal mouse) and angles (cervical region, thoracic region, lumbar region) using flexible metal tape measurements.

the researcher recommends the need to apply the rehabilitation program under consideration on the visually impaired with forward head drop deviation compensatory to kyphosis of the thoracic spine as well as developing preventive rehabilitation programs to reduce various postural deviations before it becomes difficult to rehabilitate in advanced stages.

in addition to developing programs to improve the status of (physical, physiological, postural) for visually impaired.