Strengthening Exercises

Strengthening exercises increases a person health as a whole through enable the body to perform the optimal functions without pain and stress-free. Cerebral palsy children are characterized by movements impairments and postural disorders. Moreover, they have difficulties with activities of daily living (ADL’s) due to muscles weakness, incoordination, and motor control impairments. Strengthening exercises are significant for people with CP throughout their life from childhood to adults. Strengthening exercises are widely recognized as the best way for enhancing the basic mobility, preventing deformities, and improving ADL’s ( Dodd Taylor, & Damiano ,2002). Over the last decade, the strengthening exercises become an acceptable treatment for cerebral palsy population (Damiano, Arnold, Steele, &Delp,2010). Recently several studies and systematic reviews stated that strengthening exercises are significant and effective to improve and enhance the functional motor activities, as well as enhance the muscles strength in children diagnosed with CP without adversely affecting spasticity or range of motion (Damiano et al.,2010). Damiano, Dodd, and Taylor (2002) claimed that children diagnosed with cerebral palsy display meaningfully enriched knee extensors strength due to muscle strength exercises program. They also …show more content…
found significant changes in muscle size fairly earlier than might be expected, but the study cannot determine the changes in muscle size were due to the normal growth of the participants or due to strengthening exercises program. They suggested that overall growth may have played a part in the muscle size changes (Verschuren et al., 2011). In recent meta-analysis, which reviewed 13 random control trials that included 368 patients, found that short-duration interventions of strengthening exercises program (less than eight weeks) were similar to long-duration interventions (eight to 12 weeks; Park, & Kim,