Study Status: RECRUITING
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Effects of Dohsa Hou Exercises on Functional Mobility in Children With Down Syndrome
Brief Summary:
Trisomy 21 is a condition where there's an extra chromosome 21, which leads to a set of clinical signs called Down syndrome.
Down syndrome is one of the most complicated genetic conditions that can occur post-term and is the most commonly survivable form of aneuploidy of the autosomal chromosomes.
Dohsa hou is a type of psychomotor therapy that helps improve psychological problems by using bodily movements, sensation and relaxation experience.
It was first developed under the name psycho-rehabilitation to help children with cerebral palsy improve their movements and posture.
By using Dohsa hou movement's issues were effectively addressed in children with cerebral palsy, despite their physical limitations being caused by physiological disorders.
There are two kind of treatments of Dohsa hou exercises that are relaxation therapy to decrease the stress level in body and other one is to align the body to correct the posture and movements of the body.