2015 Volume 2015 Issue 3 Pages 270-272
In this study 50 subjects (mean age 48.5 years) were evaluated and treated because suffering from neuromotor cognitive and / or mental disabilities.Subjects underwent two evaluations, (T0) and (T1) through, FIM and Tinetti SCALE and Computerized Postural assessment .Considering the scores of the FIM scale, neurological patients went from a score of 84,323 to 97,29 after 20 sessions of treatment (p=0.0487), patients with mental disabilities increased from a score of 76,895 to 94,63 (p = 0.0383). In all patients the FIM scale score increased from 82,692 to 95,75 (p = 0.0107).Gait and balance, evaluated through Tinetti scale, improved from 20,105 to 24,474 (p=0.04) for patients with mental disabilities, from 11,774 to 13,742 (p = 0.4688) for patients with neuromotor disabilities. In all patients the Tinetti score rose from 13,385 to 17,885 (p = 0.4688).The positive results suggests that we continue to develop rehabilitation techniques in water in the future.
