Efficacy of kinesiotaping on head control in post kernicterus children / Amr Mohamed Sabry Amer ; Supervised Faten Hassan Abdelazem , Hanan Galal Azoz , Amira Elsayed Elbagalaty

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Growth and Development Disorders in Pediatrics

Participants and methods: Thirty post kernicterus children of both sexes were assigned into control and study group with fifteen children in each group, the children were selected from different pediatric rehabilitation centers in Alexandria with developmental age 2 months according to Denver Developmental Screening Scale and motor abilities score below 22 in dimension A lying and rolling according to Growth Motor Function Measurement Scale. Hypotonic child, congenital postural deformity, cervical and chest burn were excluded. All children were evaluated before and after 12 weeks of treatment program to improve head control using AUTOCAD for measuring neck extension angle, and Growth Motor Functional Measurement Scale for measuring motor abilities. The designed physical therapy program was applied for both groups with adding kinesiotape on neck muscles for the study group cement (p < 0.5) and in the median values of GMFM between the control and study groups post treatment (p {u2265} 0.5) but there was an improvement in head angular displacement by 4.28% and in 0.4% in motor abilities Conclusion: its concluded that statistically kinesiotape has no effect on improving head control in post kernicterus children but clinically observed a little change occur in percentage of improvement post treatment in head angular displacement and in motor abilities

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