Abstract
The effect of Vojta treatment can be evaluated only on the basis of early start and long-term continuation of training. The parents have hopes to know the future if their children need long treatment. So we attempted to predict the locomotor prognosis at 4 years of age from the first.
We studied 93 patients with cerebral palsy who had first visited the hospital between 1978 and 1982. The initial diagnosis was the risk for cerebral palsy or cerebral palsy. They have been fully trained more than 1 year. The ages when they visited the hospital first was between 1 month and 3 years 7 months. The following items were evaluated; the developmental levels of the prone posture and the locomotion at the first visit, types of cerebral palsy, CT findings and the degree of mental retardation. All the items were useful for predicting the locomotive function in the future with a statistical significance. The prediction by this method was found to be valid in 86.2% of the patients in this study.
We could support the parents in various aspects by the evaluation of this type; psychosocial counseling, guidance for family planning, instructions for nursing and education (kindergarden and school), and social welfare including financial supports.
