脳性マヒ児の動作学的研究

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Since the opening of the history on treatment of cerebral palsy, it consisted almost exclusively on the role of leading the hand of the orthopaedic surgeon. We remember the great contribution by men like Little who gave his name to this condition, and recently Phelpes first endeavoured to help these children and greatly showed how much could be done for them. During the past 25 years we have seen new concepts and techniques of treatment having developed on neurophysiological basis. They are associated with names of such as Fay, Kabat, Knott, Brunstrom, Bobath, Rood, Bojta so on.
During the last decade, a new stand point on treatment of motor difficulty by cerebral palsied called “psychological treatment” has been advocated, and proved its practical availability or remarkable improvement of motor difficulty. Under national support, clinical and experimental investigations are in proving daily with the co-operation of psychologists, physicians, physical therapists, and teachers in Japanese universities, schools and hospitals. The present paper is a brief introduction of theory and practice of the psychological treatment.
The teacher discusses the following the essential characteristics of motor difficulty by cerebral palsied, psychological stand point of treatment, historical review of psychological treatment, nature and treatment of hypertension of muscles, analysis of postural distortion and postural tensions, psychological meaning of problems in motor actions, model patterns of motor actions, comparative consideration of motor-training and psychotherapy and the like.