Effects of Massage Therapy on the Development of Babies Born with Down Syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the short-term effects of infant massage on the development of Down syndrome babies.

Materials and methods

The study compared two groups (intervention and control), each with 16 babies with Down syndrome between 4 and 8 months old. The variables developmental age and developmental quotient were measured at two distinct time points, at pretest and after 5 weeks, using the Brunet-Lézine Early Childhood Psychomotor Development revised scale. This scale measures the variables of age and development quotient in a partial way (motor, visual-motor coordination, language, and social development) and in a global way. The experimental group received infant massage, applied by the parents, during these 5 weeks, every day for at least 10 minutes. The massage proto

SUBMITTER: Pinero-Pinto E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7229556 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature