Prematurity as a motor development risk factor
Meholjić-Fetahović, A.
Medicinski Arhiv 60(2): 99-101
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8083 PMID: 16528927 Document Number: 596688
The objective of this study was to show how the number of weeks of gestation affects babies' motor development. Prenatal brain damage is the most common cause of baby's neurological development deviation. This deviation can both be simple and complex. The objective was also to compare motor development of prematurely born babies with asphyxia or pathologic brain substrate. Study included fifty two risk babies with symptoms, divided into three groups. First group were babies born prematurely, second were babies born prematurely with asphyxia and third were babies born prematurely with pathologic brain substrate. Vojta method diagnostics has shown that all studied babies have had deviation in postural reflexes development. After being treated using Vojta method, it was monitored at which age which groups of babies formed motor patterns. Results have shown that the group of babies born prematurely with pathologic brain substrate needed the longest period to form specific motor patterns.