TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Walking performance of elderly practitioners of psychomotricity
JO  - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
A1  - dos Santos, Sarah Lins
A1  - Soares, Maria Júlia Guimarães Oliveira
A1  - Ravagni, Eduardo
A1  - Costa, Marta Miriam Lopes
A1  - Fernandes, Maria das Graças Melo
SP  - 617
EP  - 622
VL  - 67
IS  - 4
N2  - Quasi-experimental study conducted with fifteen elderlies, developed at the Physiotherapy Clinical School, Federal University of Paraíba, in 2011. The study aimed to evaluate the performance of gait in elderly practitioners of psychomotor activities. It was conducted a structured interview focusing on social, clinical and functional data, in order to be able to correlate various information which supported the aim of the study. The average cognitive performance was 19.4 at the first assessment and 23.2 in the second. The average performance of activities related to the gait was 11.6 at the first assessment, and 15.5 in the second, after the practice of psychomotor activities. It was found a significant improvement in the performance of activities related to the gait, with irregularities persisting in height and continuity of the step, as well as in the midline deviation.<p />  <p>Language: pt</p>
LA  - pt
SN  - 0034-7167
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -